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W. Martin

Contributor

W. Martin

W. Martin is the translator of Michał Witkowski's Lovetown (Portobello, 2010), Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives (Overlook, 2007), and Natasza Goerke's Farewells to Plasma (Twisted Spoon, 2002), among other things. He is a former Fiction Editor of Chicago Review and a 2008 recipient of the NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation.

Articles by W. Martin

An impressionist oil painting of a country house with trees and a garden in front of it.

"Spring in France" (1890) by Robert William Vonnoh. Wirt D. Walker Fund. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain.

Adjectival Poem

By Piotr Sommer

Amazing spring, warm, humid / and full of backlit trees.

Translated from Polish by W. Martin & Christian Hawkey

Multilingual

Bugging

By Piotr Sommer

All the hazel eyes are rotting now underground.

Translated from Polish by W. Martin & Christian Hawkey

Multilingual

Utensils Shrink

By Piotr Sommer

Verbs swell before your eyes or / burst their seams.

Translated from Polish by W. Martin & Christian Hawkey

Multilingual

An Interview with Ewa Schilling

How did you begin writing The Fool, and what motivated you to tell this particular story?

Translated from Polish by the author

The Great Atlas of Polish Queens

By Michal Witkowski

I picked up my cigarettes and went for a walk through the ruts toward Świnoujście

Translated from Polish by W. Martin

From “A Boy and Death”

By Lojze Kovacic

I'll jerk them out of your head if you don't clean up in front of the woodshed next time, she screamed.

Translated from Slovenian by Miriam Drev & W. Martin

Calypso

By Adam Wiedemann

The sea's color is green. / The white sand is stained with blood.

Translated from Polish by W. Martin

From “Konwalia”

By Adam Wiedemann

they have everything you can imagine here at least

Translated from Polish by W. Martin