RUSSELL HARRIS, translator, curator, author and editor read Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He has contributed to various international reference publications and written books on photographic portraits of India’s ruling princes, early automobiles, the social milieu of ladies’ fans in early photographic portraiture, inter alia, and has curated photographic exhibitions throughout Europe and the Middle East. He has translated literary and political works from French and Arabic including Alaa Al Aswany’s novel The Automobile Club of Egypt, and co-translated Al Aswany’s political columns in Democracy is the Answer. He currently works as an editor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. When not translating or editing, his secret vice is taking his favourite books to Cairo to have them leather-bound for a song.
MISHA HOEKSTRA has taught creative writing and literature at Brown University and Deep Springs College. He moved to Denmark twenty years ago, where he now writes and performs songs under the name Minka Hoist.
ANNE MCLEAN studied history in London, Ontario and literary translation in London, England. Between those two degrees – before running away to Central America, where she started to learn Spanish – she spent two and a half years working at the Yonge Street branch of Toronto’s Book City. These days her favourite librerías include the London Review Bookshop and Palinuro in Medellín, Colombia.
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Browse: The World In Bookshops first published in 2016
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