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Ingrid Lansford

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Ingrid Lansford

Ingrid Lansford grew up in Denmark and Germany. She immigrated to the United States at age eighteen and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. After teaching English at the college level, she ran a freelance translation business for over ten years...

. She has published literary translations in the German-English bilingual magazine Dimension2 and won the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize in 2004.

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Articles by Ingrid Lansford

The Man in the Travel Trailer
By André Kaminski
He has ten canisters of gasoline and if need be, could escape to North Africa via Malaga and Algeciras without stopping at a pump.
Translated from German by Ingrid Lansford
Among the Targi at Timbuktu
By Birgit Biehl
They seldom talked to one another, but on the second day, I saw a tiny smile in my direction from under her long lashes.
Translated from German by Ingrid Lansford