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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born 1947)

linguist, translator

  • Barnard College, The Putney School

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Two Former Students
Fibrils
Scraps
Scratches
HarperTrue Life - a Short Read - Raw
The Best American Short Stories 1997
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Essays One
Break it down
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Almost No Memory
Almost no memory
Varieties of Disturbance
The end of the story
Break It Down (High Risk Books)
Samuel Johnson is indignant
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle
Love Stories
Can't and Won't
Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red
Break It down
Can't and won't
The End of the Story (High Risk Books)
Story, and other stories
Inventario dei desideri
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Varieties of Disturbance
End of the Story
The End of the Story
Creature nel giardino
A philosophical investigation into theodical debate in a post-holocaust era
Blind date
Can't and Won't
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Samuel Johnson ist ungehalten
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Poetry Pamphlets 112
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Essays
Letters to His Neighbor
The thirteenth woman and other stories
Kakerlakker om efteråret (in Danish)
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Two American Scenes
Samuel Johnson está indignado
Fantastic Photographs
EL FINAL DE LA HISTORIA
Samuel Johnson está indignado
Essays Two
Night Train
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle
Believer, Issue 133
Rahatsizlik Cesitleri
Our Strangers
Can't And Won't (Chinese Edition)
Almost No Memory
Max and Milo
KAFKA AUX FOURNEAUX
Break It Down
Break It Down
C'est fini
Yapamam ve Yapmayacagim
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Neredeyse Hic Hatirlamiyor
Thyroid Diary
Charleigh Stays Faithful
Ni puc ni vull
Essays 2
De taal van dingen in huis en andere verhalen
Essays Two
Iggy Finds Peace
Ensayos I
Hikayenin Sonu
Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
Kinzerton Shows Kindness
The cows
Inge Jens
Inge Jens (1927-2021)

literary scholar, biographer, philologist, Germanist, opinion journalist, man of letters, social pedagogue, journalist

  • University of Hamburg, University of Tübingen

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Frau Thomas Mann
Vergangenheit-gegenwärtig
Katias Mutter: das ausserordentliche Leben der Hedwig Pringsheim
Unvollständige Erinnerungen
Dichter zwischen rechts und links
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
Die expressionistische Novelle
Frau Thomas Mann
Am Schreibtisch
Katias Mutter
Frau Thomas Mann
"Es kenne mich die Welt, auf dass sie mir verziehe"
Zur Geschichte der Sektion für Dichtkunst an der Preussischen Akademie der Künste, 1926-1933
At the Heart of the White Rose
Über Hans Mayer
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Sohn
Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
Frau Thomas Mann. Katias Mutter
Verwerflich?
Goethe
Langsames Entschwinden
Agate Nesaule
Agate Nesaule (1938-2022)

philologist

  • Indiana University Bloomington

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Woman in Amber
Sieviete dzintarā
In love with Jerzy Kosinksi
Lost Midsummers
In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015)

linguist, poet, translator, psychologist

  • Stockholm University, Södra Latin

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Minnena ser mig
Memories look at me
Windows & Stones
Tomas Tranströmer
The Great Enigma
The half-finished heaven
For the living and the dead
Baltics
New collected poems
Truth barriers
The wild marketplace =
The deleted world
The sorrow gondola =
Airmail
For the Living and the Dead: Poems and a Memoir
Fängelse
Sämtliche Gedichte
Östersjöar
Selected poems
The deleted world
Sorgegondolen =
Air mail
Fangelse
Die Erinnerungen sehen mich
The Half-Finished Heaven
Collected poems
Det vilda torget
Mörkerseende
Half-Finished Heaven
Dikter 1954-1978
Window & stones
Selected Poems 1954-1986
Bright scythe
The blue house =
Kvartett
Night vision
Elegy [and] Some October notes
Tomas Tranströmers ungdomsdikter
Klanger och spår
Gedichte
Klanger och spår
Citoyens
The wild marketplace
Sanningsbarriären
Den halvfärdiga himlen
The truth barrier
Stigar
Wild Market Place
For the living and the dead
Tomas Tranströmer
Selected Poems, 1954-1986
Bright Scythe
Deshielo a mediodía. - 1. edición
Baltics
Mörkerseende
How the late autumn night novel begins
Samlade dikter
The Deleted World
Half-Finished Heaven
Sorrow Gondola (Poetry Europe)
Air Mail (Mandarin Edition)
Den stora gåtan
Dikter
Inspired notes
Twenty poems
Ates Karalamalari
Baltics
Baltiques et autres poèmes
Ḥarf-i hamsāyah
El cielo a medio hacer
Tomas Tranströmer's first poems
Ta poiēmata
Vermeer
Dikter
Oeuvres complètes, 1954-1994
Valda dikter
För levande och döda
Dikter och prosa 1954-2004
17 dikter
Formule putovanja
Hemligheter på vägen
The truth barrier
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985)

linguist, translator, poet

  • Harvard University, Choate Rosemary Hall

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The third kind of knowledge
Spring shade; poems, 1931-1970
In the rose of time; poems 1931-1956
A note on Ezra Pound, 1928-56
A wreath for the sea
Enlarging the change
Mr. Pound's good governors
Goom and gold in Ezra Pound
Farewell to Harvard
The Aeneid
Hrvatski Odisej
Spring shade
Gloria
Poems
Horae
Jack Mapanje
Jack Mapanje (born 1944)

poet, linguist

  • University of London

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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night A Memoir
The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing
The last of the sweet bananas
Of chameleons and gods
Of Chameleons and Gods
Skipping without ropes
Beasts of Nalunga
J. Rodolfo Wilcock
J. Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978)

linguist, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, engineer

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The Temple of Iconoclasts
La sinagoga degli iconoclasti
Antología de la literatura fantástica
El Templo Etrusco
L' abominevole donna delle nevi
Italienisches Liederbuch
El Ingeniero
Persecución de las musas menores
Los DOS Indios Alegres
La Sinagoga de Los Iconoclastas
Parsifal
Libro de poemas y canciones ..
L' ingegnere
Il libro dei mostri
Le chaos
El caos
Le nozze di Hitler e Maria Antonietta nell'inferno
Il reato di scrivere
I due allegri indiani
Ensayos de poesía lírica
Il tempio etrusco
El delito de escribir
La Synagogue des iconoclastes
Lo stereoscopio dei solitari
Le stéréoscope des solitaires
El Estereoscopio De Los Solitarios
Sexto
Frau Teleprocu
La Boda de Hitler y Maria Antonieta en el Infierno (Emece Cruz del Sur)
Teatro inédito
Traidores, Los
Sexto
Yekaterina Dashkova
Yekaterina Dashkova (1743-1810)

linguist, politician, lady-in-waiting

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The memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Zapiski
Zapiski, 1743-1810
Zapiski kni︠a︡gini
O smysle slova "vospitanie"
Mémoires de la princesse Daschkoff
Zapiski
Mon histoire
Mémoires de la princesse Daschkoff, dame d'honneur de Catherine II, imprératrice de toutes les Russies
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw
Zapiski kni͡agini E. Dashkovoĭ
Zapiski kni͡agini E. R. Dashkovoĭ, pisannyi͡a ei͡u samoĭ
The memoirs of Princess Dashkov
Zapiski kni︠a︡gini E.R. Dashkovoĭ