Robyn Marsack is a writer, translator and academic from New Zealand. She is the author of The Cave of Making (1982), and an award-winning translator of Nicolas Bouvier's The Scorpion-Fish
William Hinton (1919–2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S. Left. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The G
Franz Fühmann (1922–84) was one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essay, poems, ballets and children's books. Fühmann's The
