Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
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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João Gilberto Noll
João Gilberto Noll (1946–2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil’s leading periodicals, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King’s College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all, he died in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of seventy.
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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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Sabrina Nouri-Moosa
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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.
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Benjamin Paloff
Benjamin Paloff is the author of The Politics, a collection of poems; his next, And His Orchestra, will be released by Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2015. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Stanford Humanities Center, he has translated several books from Polish, most recently Marek Bieńczyk’s Transparency and Andrzej Sosnowski’s Lodgings: Selected Poems. He teaches at the University of Michigan.
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Anne Pauly
Anne Pauly is a writer working and living in Paris. Her first book, Avant que j’oublie (Éditions Verdier, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Robert Walser after shortlisting for the Prix Femina, Prix Wepler, and Prix Goncourt. Anne has since written short stories for several reviews, a televised series, and a play. She is currently finishing a second novel, while working on a play for the Théâtre du Nord along with seven other writers, including Virginie Despentes, Paul B. Preciado, and Julien Delmaire.
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Zoë Perry
Zoë Perry has translated the work of several contemporary Brazilian authors, including Juliana Leite, Veronica Stigger, Clara Drummond, Carol Bensimon and Ana Paula Maia. Her translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. Born and raised in southeastern Kentucky, she is currently based in Miami.
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Duanwad Pimwana
Duanwad Pimwana is a major voice in contemporary Thai literature. She won Southeast Asia’s most prestigious literary prize—the S.E.A. Write Award——in 2003 for her novel Bright, and she is also the recipient of awards from PEN International Thailand and others. Acclaimed for her subtle fusing magic realism with Thai urban culture, she has written nine books, and her work has appeared in Words Without Borders and Asymptote.
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Mui Poopoksakul
Mui Poopoksakul is a lawyer turned translator with a special interest in contemporary Thai literature. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was and Moving Parts, both from Tilted Axis Press. She is translating a novel and a story collection by Duanwad Pimwana, both forthcoming in 2019 from Two Lines Press and Feminist Press, respectively. A native of Bangkok who spent two decades in the U.S., she now lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Richard Prins
Richard Prins is a New Yorker who has lived, worked, studied, and recorded music in Dar es Salaam. His poems and essays have appeared in publications such as Gulf Coast, jubilat and Plougshares and received “Notable” mentions in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. His translations from Swahili have received a 2023 Pen/Heim Translation Fund grant.