Every month, new English translations appear. Here are three of April’s offerings.
Navidad & Matanza
Carlos Labbé. Will Vanderhyden, tr.
(Open Letter)
In Chilean writer Carlos Labbé’s short metafi…
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August 21, 2012Nathan Englander and Etgar Keret at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Israeli author Etgar Keret and American author and translator Nathan Englander spoke in fervor and friendship about the a…
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