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Haydn Trowell

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Contributor

Haydn Trowell

Australia

Haydn Trowell is an Australian literary translator of modern and contemporary Japanese fiction. His translations include Love at Six Thousand Degrees by Maki Kashimada and the forthcoming title The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata.

Articles by Haydn Trowell

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The Writer’s Wife

By Maru Ayase

She has an innocence, a purity of mind like a delicate glass vessel, untainted by soiled ideas or thoughts.

Translated from Japanese by Haydn Trowell