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In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
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In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (English and Spanish Edition) Paperback - 2002

by Dorfman, Ariel

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Duke University Press Books. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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From the rear cover

"As long as poems such as these are written and published, the Pinochets of the world cannot have the last say."--Breyten Breytenbach

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  • Foreword, 07/01/2002, Page 68
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2003, Page 88

About the author

Ariel Dorfman is a world-renowned author of fiction, poems, essays, and films in both Spanish and English. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries. His work has received many prizes, among them the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play. He holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University and contributes regularly to many newspapers worldwide. Among Dorfman's publications are the reissue of his novel Widows (2002), Blake's Therapy (2001), the memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1998), and the play Death and the Maiden (1992). The poems in In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land have been read publicly by Bono, Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Ben Kingsley, Harold Pinter, John Malkovich, and many others, and have been transformed into films, art exhibits, and cantatas.

Edith Grossman has translated the novels of Gabriel Garca Mrquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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