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Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Contributor

Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Aneesa Abbas Higgins translates mostly literary fiction from French.

Articles by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

two rows of people playing pachinko

Tischbeinahe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pachinko Parlor

By Elisa Shua Dusapin

“Do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She sliced off part of her own tongue.”

Translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

A landscape of dunes in Timimoun under a blue sky

Chettouh Nabil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Night in Timimoun

By Nina Bouraoui

It's your skin I feel sliding beneath my soapy palms.

Translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins