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Sean Gasper Bye

Portrait of translator Sean Gasper Bye

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Contributor

Sean Gasper Bye

United States

Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish literature, focusing on contemporary fiction and reportage. He has been a winner of the EBRD Literary Prize, Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow. He lives in Philadelphia.

Articles by Sean Gasper Bye

“An Immigrant Like an Automobile”

By Malgorzata Szejnert

From preeminent Polish journalist Malgorzata Szejnert, Ellis Island: A People's History, translated by Sean Gasper Bye and out next week with Scribe Publications, pieces together a portrait of…

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Contacts

By Mélanie Leclerc

It's as if my childhood was preparing me for the camera, the photo, the image, and the documentary.

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Lusia Murdered

By Cezary Łazarewicz

“Must you put on a fur when someone shouts ‘murder'?

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

From “Foucault in Warsaw”

By Remigiusz Ryziński

Why was he the one with the keys to Michel Foucault’s apartment?

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself”—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story

By Filip Springer, Francisco Cantú, Abdourahman A. Waberi & Karolina Ramqvist

For the Lit Crawl portion of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, Words Without Borders and Slice Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story written by four international…

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye, Francisco Cantú, José Garcia, David Ball, Nicole Ball & Saskia Vogel

Good Faith

By Jarek Westermark

Your activities over many years, as we scrupulously observed, did not provide any evidence to suggest you wished to regain your soul.

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

Multimedia

Heniek

By Monika Szydłowska

Heniek always wanted to leave.

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Saad

By Alain Blottière

This river of misery lulls his senses.

Translated from French by Sean Gasper Bye

Fakes

By Sylwia Chutnik

How could anyone accuse Mr. Pawlikowski of something so awful?

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

Painting the Occupation

By Paweł Smoleński

They locked him up for being a Kurd.

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

A Vacation in Basra

By Mariusz Zawadzki

I have forged papers saying I am an aid worker.

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye