Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and contributors to the Calico series.
Adrian Minckley
Adrian Minckley is a media and literary translator; she lives and works along the Rio Grande.
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Robin Moger
Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. His translations of prose and poetry have appeared in Blackbox Manifold, The White Review, Tentacular, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Seedings, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The Washington Square Review and others. He has translated several novels and prose works into English including Iman Mersal’s How To Mend (Kayfa ta), Nael Eltoukhy’s The Women of Karantina (AUC Press) and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles (7 Stories Press). His translation of Haytham El Wardany’s The Book Of Sleep is forthcoming from Seagull Press in November 2020.
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Ed Moreno
Ed Moreno is a writer and translator from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and the recipient of a Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference scholarship. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, the Nashville Review, Foglifter, Blithe House Quarterly, and Cleis Press’s “Best Gay” series. He is currently writing his first novel.
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Adam Morris
Adam Morris has a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press, 2017) and Quiet Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press, 2016), and Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in BOMB magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.
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Canaan Morse
Canaan Morse is a literary translator, poet, and scholar of pre-modern Chinese literature. His translations of Chinese fiction and poetry have been published in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, The Baffler, and many other journals, as well as twice in book form via the NYRB Classics series. His recent translation of Ge Fei’s classic novel Peach Blossom Paradise was a Finalist for a 2021 National Book Award.
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Saadiah Mufarreh
Saadiah Mufarreh is a poet and critic and works as arts editor of Al-Qabas daily newspaper in Kuwait. She graduated from Kuwait University with a major in Arabic language and education in 1987 and has published four collections of poetry.
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Robin Myers
Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. Her translations include Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books), Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books), and other works of poetry and prose. She lives in Mexico City. (Photo credit: Nuria Lagarde)
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Mohamad Nassereddine
Mohamad Nassereddine is a Lebanese poet born in 1977 in South Lebanon. He is the author of seven poetry collections, the most recent of which is Aqfās̩ tabḥath ‘an ‘as̩āfīr [Cages in search of birds] (2019). He is also a translator and a cultural journalist who regularly publishes work in the cultural appendix of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
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Elvira Navarro
Elvira Navarro (Huelva, Spain, 1978) has published both novels and short stories. Her novel A Working Woman, which addresses the impact of the economic crisis on the contemporary female experience, has established her as a leading voice in Spanish literature. She has been the recipient of numerous significant accolades in Spain, including the Jaén Novel Prize and the Andalusian Critics’ Prize. Additionally, Granta magazine has identified her as one of the twenty-two most distinguished Spanish writers under the age of thirty-five. Her collection of short stories, Rabbit Island, has been nominated for the 2021 National Book Award for Foreign Literature. Her most recent novel, The Voices of Adriana, has been awarded the 2023 Cálamo Special Prize. (Photo Credit: Rubén Bastida)
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Marie NDiaye
was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, France. She is the author of around twenty novels, plays, collections of stories, and nonfiction books, which have been translated into numerous languages. She’s received the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary honor, and her plays are in the repertoire of the Comédie-Française.
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Raimundo Neto
Raimundo Neto is a young author already widely lauded for his rhythmic and at times claustrophobic prose. His work interrogates the struggles and joys of femininity across genders, and how it is constrained or cultivated by family, partners, and passersby. His debut short story collection, Todo esse amor que inventamos para nós, takes inspiration in part from his own experiences growing up femme in Brazil’s largely rural and working-class Northeast region.
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Denise Newman
Denise Newman is an award-winning poet and translator. Her fourth poetry collection Future People was published by Apogee Press in 2016. Newman has translated two novels by Inger Christensen—The Painted Room and Azorno. Her most recent translation, Baboon, by the Danish writer Naja Marie Aidt (Two Lines Press), won the 2015 PEN Translation Award and an NEA Fellowship. Her own writing has appeared widely, including in Denver Quarterly, Volt, Fence, New American Writing, and ZYZZYVA. She teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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Nchanji Njamnsi
Nchanji Njamnsi is a translator from Cameroon who has been translating since 2012. He is passionate about the role literary translation should play in intercultural communication. He previously co-translated a short story featured in Your Feet Will Lead You Where Your Heart Is, a bilingual anthology published in 2020.
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Lara Norgaard
Lara Norgaard is an essayist and literary translator. She has published nonfiction and literary criticism in Public Books, the Jakarta Post, Peixe-elétrico, and the Transpacific Literary Project, and translations from the Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian in Asymptote. She is currently pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at Harvard University, where she focuses on post-dictatorship Latin American and Southeast Asian literatures.
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Hodna Nuernberg
Hodna Bentali Gharsallah Nuernberg holds an MA in francophone world studies and an MFA in literary translation, both from the University of Iowa. Her translations from the French and the Arabic have appeared in Anomaly, Asymptote, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Poet Lore, Two Lines, and elsewhere. Nuernberg lives in Morocco, where she serves as an editor-at-large for Asymptote and works as a translator for film and TV. Her co-translation of Raphaël Confiant’s Madam St. Clair, Queen of Harlem was published by Diálogos in January 2020.
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Masatsugu Ono
Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The Water-Covered Grave), which won the Asahi Award for New Writers, and Nigiyakana wan ni seowareta fune (Boat on a Choppy Bay), which won the Mishima Prize. A prolific translator from the French—including works by Èdouard Glissant and Marie NDiaye—Ono received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s highest literary honor, in 2015. He lives in Tokyo.