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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977
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Can Xue
Can Xue is the pseudonym of the renowned avant‑garde author Deng Xiaohua
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Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen is a British-Israeli-American literary translator who often works with Israeli author David Grossman
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Nichola Smalley
Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature
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Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from Arabic
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Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith studied German and French at Selwyn College, Cambridge, then undertook a post-graduate diploma in translation and interpreting at the University of Bradford
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Something to Answer For
P.H. Newby’s 17th novel made literary history in 1969, when it was named as the inaugural winner of the Booker Prize
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Figures in a Landscape
Barry England’s powerful account of two escaped prisoners’ desperate attempt to outrun their pursuers across a dangerous and alien landscape
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Impossible Object
Nicholas Mosely presents eight carefully connected stories that pursue the notion that ‘those who like unhappy ends can have them, and those who don't will have to look for them’
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From Scenes Like These
Gordon Williams’ powerful and violent story of a Scottish adolescent growing up fast in the austere years following the Second World War