Leipzig is Lit

2018-03-14

Finding Shelter - Grove by Esther Kinsky

Were it not for the newly released English translation of Am Fluß, published as River (translated by Iain Galbraith), most people in the English-speaking world might never have previously been aware of Esther Kinsky. She initially made a name for herself translating from Polish, Russian, and …

2018-03-13

Isabel Cole's Trailblazing Green Frontier

I should be honest up front: I'm biased when it comes to Isabel Fargo Cole, who was one of the first real, live translators I got to know personally. Along with Katy Derbyshire, she was one of my earliest translation role models. I knew she had translated Meyrink's Golem and Wolfgang Hilbig, with…