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Jacob Rogers

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Contributor

Jacob Rogers

United States

Jacob Rogers (Haifa, 1994) is a translator of Galician prose and poetry. His translations have appeared in Asymptote, Best European Fiction 2019, PRISM International, Cagibi, Your Impossible Voice, Nashville Review, The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, and the Portico of Galician Literature, with work forthcoming in Lunch Ticket, Copper Nickel, and ANMLY. His translation of Carlos Casares’ novel, His Excellency, came out from Small Stations Press in 2017.

Articles by Jacob Rogers

More Than a Literary Movement: Susana Sanches Arins and Valentim Fagim on Reintegrationist Galician

By Words Without Borders

WWB's March issue features writing from Galicia, an autonomous region of northwestern Spain that borders Portugal. Though the Galician language shares a common root with modern Portuguese, Galicia's…

Translated by Jacob Rogers

Essays, or the Opening and Closing of the Okra Flowers During the Eclipse

The work of German photographer Karl Blossfeldt and his relationship to plants is reimagined in this poem by 2019 Poems in Translation Contest winner Alba Cid from her collection Atlas.Light is choral…

Translated from Galician by Megan Berkobien & Jacob Rogers

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Of Children and Sphincters

By Xurxo Borrazás

“I don’t know where to start.”

Translated from Galician by Adrian Minckley & Jacob Rogers

An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or The Sacrifice of the Pfeilstörchen

it’s awful of me to interrupt, but I just / need you to understand how certain kinds of wounds can be useful.

Translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers

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