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Joshua Edwards

A black-and-white portrait of translator Joshua Edwards
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Joshua Edwards

Joshua Edwards is the author of several titles, including The Double Lamp of Solitude (Rising Tide Projects, 2022) and Castles and Islands (Liang Editions, 2016). Awarded the Akademie Schloss Solitude and Wallace Stegner Fellowships, Edwards lives in Paris.

Articles by Joshua Edwards

A watercolor painting of a solitary boat on a misty lake with mountains in the background
"Rain, Bellagio" by George Elbert Burr. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Carolann Smurthwaite in memory of her mother, Caroline Atherton Connell Smurthwaite. Public domain.
Dedicated to All Living Beings Who Suffer
By Yang Licai
Chinese poet and activist Yang Licai considers the eternal question of human suffering in this final selection in the 2024 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series.
Translated from Chinese by Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu
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