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The Last Witnesses

Posted on 20 November 2019 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Translation often comes with a delay, sometimes of decades. Many of these people’s stories are only being told in English after their death. Before that, it took decades for their voices to be heard in their native language. Last Witnesses:…

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Arid Dreams

Posted on 6 November 2019 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

These are feminist stories with a difference, in that many of them show how a male protagnonist is thinking, and how their thinking changes through encounter with the women around them. Which hopefully makes the reader take a long hard…

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