Bill Johnston

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Bill Johnston is professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. He is one of the most prolific translators of Polish literature into English. His work has received the Found in Translation Award, the PEN Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, the Transatlantyk Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous other honors.

Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk
By Julia Fiedorczuk

Julia Fiedorczuk
Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 2023. 106 pages. In his brief translator’s note to Julia Fiedorczuk’s Psalms, Bill Johnston recounts the 2020 interview in which he asked Fiedo…
The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix by Alain Mabanckou
By Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou
Trans. Bill Johnston. Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 2019. 203 pages. In the Republic of Vietongo, life is a perpetual schism. The setting of Alain Mabanckou’s most recently translated novel,…
Oxygen by Julia Fiedorczuk
By Julia Fiedorczuk

Julia Fiedorczuk
Brookline, Massachusetts. Zephyr Press. 2017. 110 pages. Oxygen is a modest sampling of Julia Fiedorczuk’s poems—not quite a Selected Poems—that falls into three categories: “Lands a…
Five Poems by Julia Fiedorczuk
By Julia Fiedorczuk
November 2014
Julia Fiedorczuk
Photo by Alberto Varela Bio How unlike a dead fish a live fish is – Maxine Hong Kingston Kiedy byłam rybąKosmos jak zawsze okrągłyMiał przytulne ściany Śniłam o boskich pł…