Zsuzsanna Gahse was born in 1946 in Budapest, from which she fled with her parents to Austria during the 1956 revolution. She grew up in Vienna and Kassel, and currently lives in Switzerland. She has published twenty-five books, and has translated the works of Hungarian writers such as Zsuzsa Rakovszky und István Vörös into German. Recent works include JAN, JANKA, SARA und ich (Edition Korrespondenzen, 2015) and More Than Eleven, an opera libretto for mezzosoprano. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Aspekte-Literaturpreis (1983) and the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis (2006). Since 2011 she has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
Chenxin Jiang was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong. She has been awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for Ji Xianlin´s The Cowshed (New York Review Books, 2016), as well as the 2011 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation for her work on Goliarda Sapienza. Chenxin is the Senior Editor covering Chinese writing at Asymptote, an online journal of contemporary literature in translation. She studied comparative literature at Princeton University.

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