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A groundbreaking anthology This anthology with a foreword by Ranjit Hoskote consists of excerpts from ten classical works that have been translated and published by the Murty Classical Library of […] ...

In a newly translated collection, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, Ditlevsen's social realism portrays all ...

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