Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
Colette Fellous
Colette Fellous is the author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd’hui (2005), for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La Préparation de la vie (2014), in which she pays homage to her mentor Roland Barthes. A former publisher and radio producer for France Culture, she lives between France and Tunisia and is also a photographer. This Tilting World is her first book published in English.
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Eric Fishman
Eric Fishman is an educator, writer, and translator. His most recent translation is Outside: Poetry and Prose by André du Bouchet (Bitter Oleander Press). He is currently translating a selected volume of poetry by Monchoachi. Eric is also a founding editor of Young Radish, a magazine of poetry and art by kids and teens. (Photo credit: Arlette Pacquit)
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Angélica Freitas
Angélica Freitas was born in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is the author of three books of poetry—Rilke shake (2007), Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (2012), and Canções de atormentar (2020)—as well as a graphic novel, Guadalupe (2011), illustrated by Odyr. She received a 2010 Petrobras Cultural writer’s award and a 2020 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency. Her writing represents a contemporary voice in literature by women and LGBT+ authors from Brazil.
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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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Urszula Honek
In addition to White Nights, Urszula Honek is the author of three poetry books, each of which received numerous awards. She has held scholarships from the Maria Anna Siemieńska Grazella Foundation (2016), as well as from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017). Urszula also received the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Prize, in 2020, and the Adam Włodek Prize, in 2021. Białe noce, (White Nights), her first prose collection, was nominated for both Polityka’s Passport Award and the Grand Continent Prize, in 2022, and in 2023 it was nominated for the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize and won the Conrad Award. Urszula has also won the Kościelski Award, which is given to the most promising Polish writer under the age of 40.
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Janet Hong
Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale, which was also a finalist for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize and the 2018 National Translation Award. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan’s Bluebeard’s First Wife and Kwon Yeo-sun’s Lemon. (Photo credit: courtesy of the author)
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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.