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Type: Author

Can Xue

Can Xue is the pseudonym of the renowned avant‑garde author Deng Xiaohua

Type: Author

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

Type: Author

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1968

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1968

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

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’

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1968

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

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1969

The Nice and the Good

A government official lies dead - but awkward questions around his supposed suicide remain in Iris Murdoch’s thriller-meets-romantic comedy