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Sarah Death is a translator and scholar of Swedish literature. She edited the Swedish Book Review from 2003-2015 and lives in Kent, England. She has twice won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize: in 2003 for The Angel House by Kerstin Ekman and in 2006 for Snow by Ellen Mattson. Her most recent novel translation is…
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Singapore. Her stories appear in the anthologies From the Belly of the Cat (2009) and Let’s Tell This Story Properly: Commonwealth Short Story Prize Anthology (2015), as well as in the journal Mänoa. Her nonfiction work includes Singapore: A Biography (2009), co-authored with Mark Ravinder Frost and commissioned by the National…
Deborah Smith is a translator of Korean and the founder of a new non-profit London-based publisher, Tilted Axis Press. Recently, she has worked with Korean author Han Kang to bring her novel The Vegetarian to an English-reading audience. The book is a collection of three linked novellas about a woman who gives up eating meat…
Book Recommendations from Our Advisory Editors Ann Beattie recommends Salt and Pepper Cooking, The Education of an American Chef, by James Haller: “This slim book contains tons of information about coming of age, how one develops, and what part fate, friendship, and luck play in an individual’s life. As well as being humane and downright…
In 1988, when I went to Uruguay for the first time, the country was emerging from a long military dictatorship, and the capital, Montevideo, was a quiet, gray city that reminded me of Central Europe. The arts have always been important in Uruguay. You feel their presence everywhere—from the striking modern architecture that invigorates the…
Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhova, a small town near Moscow. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and in 2003, she became a member of the Russian PEN-centre. In 2004, her book entitled A Voice was published by Northwestern University Press. In 2013 Paul Klee’s Boat (Zephyr Press, 2012) appeared in a…
Andrew Wachtel is president of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Previously he was Dean of the Graduate School at Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an active translator from multiple Slavic languages. Paul Klee’s…
Michael Thomas Taren Lord Kreiden is a world deformed, bludgeoning, heavy, and livid. He is the author of eunuchs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015). He is co-translator with Purdey Lord Kreiden Thomas Taren of Tony Duvert’s Atlantic Island (Semiotext(e), Fall 2015), Mated, by Joris-Karl Huysmans (Wakefield Press, Fall 2016), and Dust Pink by Jean-Jacques Schuhl (Semiotext(e),…
Adam Giannelli’s poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Yale Review, FIELD, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and the editor of High Lonesome (Oberlin…
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