Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
Saskia Vogel
Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission, a novel on grief, desire, and coastal Los Angeles that was published in five languages and longlisted for the Believer Book Award. She is also the deputy editor the Erotic Review, a 30-year-old UK arts and lifestyle journal which relaunched in March 2024. Her writing focuses on desire, landscape, subculture, and care, and has been awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She can be read in Granta, The Paris Review, The White Review, The Offing, The Literary Hub, and more. A translator of over two dozen Swedish-language books, her work has won the Bernard Shaw Prize (Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega), the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction (Johannes Anyuru’s They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears), has been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize (Jessica Schiefauer’s Girls Lost), as well as having been supported by grants from the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Authors’ Fund, and English PEN. She was Princeton University’s Translator in Residence in fall 2022, where she completed her translation of Linnea Axelsson’s Sámi epic Aednan. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.
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Kate Webster
Kate Webster is a translator of Polish to English specializing in literature, academic texts, and the arts. Her published translations include works of fiction, fantasy, and reportage, as well as children’s books and comics. Her work has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (2024) and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize (2023), and longlisted for the International Booker Prize (2024). She is based in London.
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Richard Weiner
Richard Weiner (1884–1937) is widely considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century. The author of several works of poetry and prose, his writing was suppressed during the Communist period and only became recognized for its importance after 1989.
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Tamar Weiss-Gabbay
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay is an Israeli author. She has published five books in Hebrew, both for adults and children, and has earned rave reviews. Her recent children’s book was chosen to be distributed to preschools throughout Israel. She leads various literary-social projects, including The Israeli Women Writers’ Forum, Two: A Bilingual Project for Arabic and Hebrew Contemporary Literature, and the street libraries in Jerusalem.
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Juliet Winters Carpenter
Juliet Winters Carpenter was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1948. She is a veteran translator and double recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature, in 1980 for Abe Kōbō’s Secret Rendezvous and in 2014 for Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel. In addition to numerous works on Japanese culture and religion, she has translated fiction by authors such as Enchi Fumiko, Tawara Machi, Watanabe Shin’ichi, Miyabe Miyuki, Shiba Ryōtarō, Miura Shion, and Hirano Keiichirō. With Aotani Yüko, she edited the bilingual book Gems of Japanese Literature/ Eigo rōdoku de tanoshimu Nihon bungaku. A professor emerita of Doshisha Women’s College, she lives with her husband on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
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Elisa Wouk Almino
Elisa Wouk Almino is translating previously unpublished letters by Ana Cristina Cesar and the poetry related to these letters. She is the translator of This House by Ana Martins Marques (Scrambler Books) in addition to translating Paulo Leminski, Luciany Aparecida, Caio Fernando Abreu, among others. She is a senior editor at Hyperallergic and the editor of Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction (Rizzoli). She teaches art criticism at Catapult and translation at UCLA Extension. (photo credit: Melissa Golinsky)
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Matvei Yankelevich
Matvei Yankelevich has translated Elena Guro, Daniil Kharms, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Alexander Vvedensky, as well as several contemporary Russian-language poets. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities, and was a co-recipient (with Eugene Ostashevsky) of the 2014 National Translation Award. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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Valeriya Yermishova
Valeriya Yermishova is a freelance French and Russian to English translator based in the New York City area. She earned an MA in Translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and teaches at the Hunter College MA in Translation and Interpreting Program. She is the translator of Viktor Shklovsky’s Life of a Bishop’s Assistant and Sergey Kuznetsov’s The Round Dance of Water.
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Xu Zechen
Xu Zechen is the author of the novels Midnight’s Door, Night Train, Heaven on Earth, and Running Through Beijing (Two Lines Press, 2014). He was selected by People’s Literature as one of the “Future 20” best Chinese writers under forty-one. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, he lives in Beijing.
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Jeffrey Zuckerman
Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French and the Digital Coordinator at Music & Literature Magazine. His translations include Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins, the diaries of the Dardenne brothers, and Jean Genet’s The Criminal Child. He has also contributed shorter pieces to Frieze, The New Republic, The NYRDaily, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and VICE. Jeffrey studied English literature and literary translation at Yale University, and has served as a judge for the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the complete stories of Hervé Guibert.