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WAAT #66: Beginning Again with a New Year

Jan 01, 2024 8 Comments

A new year is, sometimes, an opportunity to begin again. So here’s a reboot of the ‘We Are All Translators’ newsletter with some recommended reads.

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Jenny Bhatt is an author, a literary translator, a book critic, and a 2025 NEA Translation Fellow. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student of literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has taught creative writing at Writing Workshops Dallas and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship Program. Jenny lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. (Photo Credit: Pixel Voyage Photography / Arushi Gupta)

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