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Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky is an award-winning writer and translator. She has published prose and poetry, essays and children’s books in German and English and translated a number of twentieth-century writers from Russian, Polish and English into German. Her most recent publication is, together with Martin Chalmers, Karadag Oktober 2013, a geopoetic exploration of Crimea. Her novel By the River is forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017.

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By the River

fiction

January 2016

Esther Kinsky

TR. Martin Chalmers

fiction

January 2016

  For Aljoscha   ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY   Under my finger the map, this quiet pale blue of the cold estuary, the countless small...

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poetry

May 2011

Two Prose Poems From 'The Sacrifice of Abraham'

Alexander Nemser

poetry

May 2011

The Rabbis   As the purple light of evening descended, women sang blessings over silver candelabra, and a group...

fiction

March 2017

Initiation

Guadalupe Nettel

TR. Rosalind Harvey

fiction

March 2017

Aside from its absence of windows, my apartment is a mausoleum which bestows an epic dimension upon the important...

poetry

June 2014

Death on Rua Augusta

Tedi López Mills

TR. David Shook

poetry

June 2014

Translator’s Note Death on Rua Augusta is a book I knew I would translate before I had even finished...

 

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