We love new-translation news. Here, WLT intern Alex Crayon offers four new translations—from Spanish, Korean, French, and Catalan—all releasing in February 2021.
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists, including Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, Jacek Dehnel, Mariusz Szczygieł, and Artur Domosławski.…
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