Jen Calleja
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in Hastings. Her translations have been featured in the New Yorker and the White Review, and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. Vehicle: a verse novel (Prototype) and Dust Sucker (Makina Books) were published this year, and a collection of cultural criticism – Goblinhood: goblin as a mode – is forthcoming from Rough Trade Books. Photo © Sophie Davidson
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 165
Evaporation in the Boundary Zone
Ilija Matusko
‘From a dish washer to an author who writes about washing dishes.’
Memoir by Ilija Matusko, translated by Jen Calleja.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Saskia Vogel & Jen Calleja
‘Narrative is control, dominance, purposeful withholding, flirting’
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Pine Islands
Marion Poschmann
‘Gilbert Silvester woke up distraught. Mathilda’s black hair lay spread out on the pillow next to him, tentacles of a malevolent pitch-black jellyfish.’
