from The Arab
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from Thirteen Months of Sunrise
I don’t care how they take my body...What can this skinny, tired, and sickly body give them? What flames can it quench? More
from The Remainder
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from Edinburgh Notebook
In the desert, my love, in the desert I saw an elephant born. Its mother thought it dead, and in her desperate rage, she dragged it with her trunk... More
from The Palimpsests
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from Felix Austria
In the morning they discovered that a lock of hair from the severed head of John the Baptist vanished without a trace, as did the relics of St. Munditia… More
Women in Translation Month: Books Translated by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
In the final two posts of the series, we expand the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and the PEN… More
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SO. EXCITED. to be reading the BEST works in #translation this year for the 2021 #PENTranslationPrize!! Getting to brainstorm with a fantastic panel of judges is such an honour 🧡
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CHRONICLES OF THE APOCALYPSE: WRITING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
w/ @GhoshAmitav @TempestWilliams and myself, introduced by @Egangoonsquad via @PENamerica, @UVa_IHGC @UVA
12/1, 4:00pm EST
Register here:
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[email protected] will receive @PENamerica's second-ever Voice of Influence Award. He'll be in conversation with Ron Chernow at the virtual gala on Dec. 8: https://bit.ly/3mfEO82