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English PEN Sample Translations and Readers’ Reports
Ipek Calislar: Latife Hanim – read the sample translation
Turkish, Biography
Ali al-Dumaini: Time for Prison, Times for Freedom
Arabic, fiction
Ak Welsapar: COBRA
Russian, fiction
Jiang Qisheng: My Life in Prison
Chinese, memoir
Jean-Louis N’Tadi: Le Chef d’…tat
French, play
Mamadali Mahmudov: Eternal Mountain
Uzbek, fiction
Philipp Manes: As if It Were Life
German, memoir
Omer Asan: Niko’s Kemence
Turkish, fiction
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