Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and contributors to the Calico series.
Edgar Garbelotto
Edgar Garbelotto is a writer and translator born in Brazil and based in the U.S. for the past 20 years. His translation of João Gilberto Noll’s novel Lord was published by Two Lines Press in 2019. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Asymptote, Ninth Letter, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. Terra Incognita, written in both Portuguese and English, is his debut novel.
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Elena Garro
Elena Garro (1916–1998) was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and the inventor of magical realism, though she rejected the term as “a cheap marketing label.” The author of over 40 books, she wrote about the violence embedded in everyday life, with a focus on children, women, and indigenous people.
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Yan Ge
Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China, and currently lives in Dublin. She is the author of eleven books and was chosen as Best New Writer by the Chinese Literature Media Prize. People’s Literature magazine recently named her as one of China’s twenty future literary masters. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the author)
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Rebecca Gisler
Rebecca Gisler, born in Zurich in 1991, is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute and of the Master’s degree in Création littéraire at the University of Paris 8. She writes in German and French and translates her texts from one language into another. She has published poetry and prose in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the co-organizer of the series Teppich in the House of Literature Zürich. In 2020 Rebecca Gisler won the 28th Open Mike literature competition.
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Alla Gorbunova
Alla Gorbunova is a poet and prose writer whose work focuses on delicate, elusive questions about the basis of speech and the nature of reality. She was born in Leningrad and has published five collections of poems and three books of prose. Her poetry and prose have been translated into many languages, including a poetry collection in Italian and two books of prose in Italian and Bulgarian. She is the recipient of the Debut Literary Award, the Andrei Bely Prize, and the NOS Prize.
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Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman is an award-winning Spanish-to-English literary translator. She has translated the works of Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Álcaro Mutis, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. Her translation of Don Quixote has been praised by Carlos Fuentes and Harold Bloom. She is the author of Why Translation Matters.
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Audrey Heijns
Audrey Heijns is a translator of Chinese poetry and prose, and the editor of VerreTaal, the online database of Chinese literature in Dutch translation found at: unileiden.net/verretaal
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Ashjan Hendi
Ashjan Hendi is a poet and scholar from Saudi Arabia. She received her PhD in Arabic literature from SOAS, University of London. Her poetry is lyrical with linguistic and figurative innovations. She received a number of poetry awards and has been translated into different languages.
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Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig was born in 1941 in the coal-mining region of Meuselwitz, Saxony; his father fell in the battle of Stalingrad. Hilbig worked as a stoker in East Germany’s industrial wasteland, and his densely poetic texts literally emerged from the boiler-room. But he was too independent and his work too dark to fit in with the new breed of working-class poets fostered by the German Democratic Republic. An autodidact, he read voraciously, and was influenced by German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Ludwig Tieck, as well as Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan. In 1985, Hilbig moved to West Germany, but remained a profoundly East German writer, addressing the conflicts of his Eastern-Western existence with an intensity that made him one of Germany’s most important postwar writers. In 2002 Hilbig was awarded the Büchner Prize, Germany’s most prestigious literary award, for his life’s work. He died in 2007 after a long struggle with cancer, leaving a substantial oeuvre of poetry, short prose, novellas, and novels. (Photo credit: 3:AM Magazine)
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Sophie Hughes
Sophie Hughes is a British literary translator who primarily translates from Spanish to English. She has translated more than a dozen books, including the works of José Revueltas and Enrique Vila-Matas for New Directions. She was shortlisted for the 2019 and 2020 International Booker Prize.
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Zhu Hui
Zhu Hui was born in Jiangsu, China. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Yu hua and author of four novels and more than eighty short stories. His awards include the Wang Zengqi Award and the 2018 Lu Xun Literary Prize, China’s most prestigious literary award.
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William M. Hutchins
William M. Hutchins has translated many works of Arabic literature into English including Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim, The Cairo Trilogy by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and The Fetishists by Ibrahim al-Koni. His translation of New Waw by al-Koni won the ALTA National Prose Translation Award for 2015. A three-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Hutchins has published translations from the Arabic in The Brooklyn Rail, Banipal, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere.
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Mahbouba Ibrahimi
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Ellen Jones
Ellen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com(opens in a new tab).
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Cristina Judar
Cristina Judar is a writer from São Paulo. Her award-winning books Roteiros para uma vida curta and Oito do Sete challenge literary categories, traversing boundaries between poetry and prose. She has also written Questions for a Live Writing at the Queen Mary University of London and co-organized the anthologies A resistência dos vaga-lumes and Pandemônio.
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Maria Judite de Carvalho
Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) published nine collections of short stories, a novella, and two collections of crónicas over her lifetime. She spent her career in journalism, working as an editor and columnist, she was also known for her French translations and paintings. Widely celebrated in Portugal, Two Lines Press is the first to make her books available in English.