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Archipelago Translators:

James Anderson
Sinan Antoon
Don Bartlett
Ross Benjamin
John Berger
Robert Bononno
Marilyn Booth
Danuta Borchardt
Anne Bostock
Breyten Breytenbach
Peter Roland Bush
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Thomas Christensen
Catherine Cobham
J.M. Coetzee
Bella Cohen
David Colmer
Martha Cooley
Sean Cotter
Humphrey Davies
Alex Dawe
Elizabeth Deshays
Karen Emmerich
Lee Fahnestock
Sheila Fischman
Maureen Freely
Mark Fried
Amaia Gabantxo
Jody Gladding
Imre Goldstein
Erdag Göknar
Daniel Hahn
Victoria Häggblom
Michael Henry Heim
David Hinton
Bill Johnston
Edmund Keeley
Stacey Knecht
Ralph Manheim
Wyatt Mason
Anne McLean
Ibrahim Muhawi
André Naffis-Sahely
Sean O'Brien
James O'Connor
Tim Parks
Mark Polizzotti
Ezra Pound
Ina Rilke
Antonio Romani
Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani
Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani
Joel Rotenberg
Philip Roughton
Jeffrey Sacks
Richard Sieburth
Arunava Sinha
Daniel Slager
Jordan Stump
Maia Tabet
Peter Theroux
Stela Tomasevic
Alyson Waters
Christopher Whyte
David Williams
Charles de Wolf
Peter Wortsman
Yu Young-nan
Richard Zenith

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Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston is Director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University. His translations include Gustaw Herling's The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories (New Directions, 2003), Jerzy Pilch's His Current Woman (Grove, 2002), and Stefan Zeromski's The Faithful River (Northwestern, 1999). In 1999 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship for Translation. In 2008 he won the inaugural Found in Translation award for Tadeusz Rózewicz's new poems, to be presented yearly to the translator of the finest Polish-English literary translation of the year. 

Click here to read a polishwriting.net interview with Bill Johnston.

Click here to hear Three Percent's podcast with Bill Johnston, in which he discusses his upcoming translation, Stone Upon Stone.

Watch Bill Johnston win the 2012 Best Translated Book Award for Stone Upon Stone:



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