Leopard IV

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Leopard-the occasional anthology of the harvill press-is a forum for writers the world over. In the present volume are essays by Murray Bail, Stephen Becker, Julio Cortzar, Adriaan van Dis, Julian Gracq, Carol Brown Janeway, Ismail Kadare, Anna Maria Ortese, Jonathan Raban, and the 1998 Nobel Prize winner, Jos Saramago. Jenefer Coates contributes "Bearing Witness," a memoir of Leo Labedz, one of the outstanding figures among interpreters of Soviet Russia. The poetry includes a new translation by Peter Norman of Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman"; new work by Paul Durcan; and poems by Gesualdo Bufalino, Ernst Jandl, and Bruno K. Oijer, translated for the first time into English. Leopard IV brings together Ken Saro-Wiwa's "On the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa" and stories from Starling Lawrence, Luigi Malerba, Javier Maras, Julian Mazor, Neva Mullins, Yi Mun-yol, James Salter, and Ludmilla Ulitskaya. There are extracts from novels by Lionel Abrahams, Claudio Magris, Nicolaas Matsier, and Slobodan Seleni?c. Also included is Robert Mort's photographic essay "Burmese Journey." Translators include Patrick Creagh, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Tom Geddes, Iain Halliday, Michael Hamburger, Margaret Jull Costa, Charlie Murphy, Simon Patten, Giovanni Pontiero, Ina Rilke, Brother Anthony of Taiz, and Guido Waldman.


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Translators include Patrick Creagh, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Tom Geddes, Iain Halliday, Michael Hamburger, Margaret Jull Costa, Charlie Murphy, Simon Patten, Giovanni Pontiero, Ina Rilke, Brother Anthony of Taiz�, and Guido Waldman.


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