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Janet Livingstone

Contributor

Janet Livingstone

Janet Livingstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and ventured to Czechoslovakia just after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Among her full-length book translations are Master Your Stage Fright by Slovak master violinist, Bohdan Warchal; Piata loď (working title: Boat Number Five) by novelist Monika Kompaníková; and Seeing People Off and Away! Away! by Jana Beňová. Her current translation projects include the novels The Best of All Worlds by Slovak-Swiss author Irena Brežná and The Arab World—Another Planet? by Emire Khidayer. Janet lives in Seattle with her two children.

Articles by Janet Livingstone

First Read—From “Away! Away!”
By Jana Beňová
The following excerpt is from Jana Beňová’s Away! Away!, translated by Janet Livingstone and out tomorrow from Two Dollar Radio. With Beňová’s signature…
Translated by Janet Livingstone
From “Boat Number Five”
By Monika Kompaníková
The train left. The woman didn't come.
Translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone