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Margot Bettauer Dembo

Margot Bettauer Dembo is a translator of German literature into English. She has translated works by Judith Hermann and Ödön von Horváth amongst others. She is the winner of Goethe-Institut Berlin Translator’s Prize in 1994. She lives in New York.

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Nothing But Ghosts

Judith Hermann

‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘

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This Side of the Oder

Judith Hermann

‘Time retreated, his dread crouched in the farthest recess of his mind.’

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The Red Coral Bracelet

Judith Hermann

‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’

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