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National Book Foundation > Author > Translator > Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Program and has won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize. (Photo credit: New Directions) More about this author >
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. More about this book >