For sixteen years the "Two Lines World Writing in Translation" series has bridged an important gap in contemporary publishing by helping readers to sample and discover a broad array of international authors whose voices would otherwise not be heard in the United States. "Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed", the latest volume in the series, collects the poetry and fiction of thirty different authors, giving pause to the vulnerability of borders and transposed sense of place that contemporary writers the world over feel. With a special section on Palestinian poetry selected by Marilyn Hacker, "Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed" pays tribute to the late Mahmoud Darwish with Fady Joudah's award-winning translations. Other features include: a preview from Breon Mitchell's benchmark re-translation of Nobel Laureate Gunther Grass' "The Tin Drum"; Khaled Mattawa's newest translations of revered Syrian poet Adonis; and an extract from Esther Allen's latest work - Cuban writer Jose Manuel Prieto's novel "Rex", set in the world of Russian expats and Mafiosos.
"Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed" also includes poetry translated from Kurdish and Basque as well as fiction from Greek avant-garde author Ersi Sotiropoulos and the late Danish writer Inger Christensen. Lauded for her translations of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's novels of the last decade, Margaret Jull Costa has won numerous awards for her translations from both Portuguese and Spanish, most recently the PEN Translation Prize and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Distinguished with the first-ever Robert Fagles Translation Prize for her translation of French poet Marie Etienne, Marilyn Hacker is also the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently "Essays on Departure". Hacker was appointed a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2009.