On Thursday 27 August, author Jenny Erpenbeck will appear at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Ahead of the event, English PEN talks to Susan Bernofsky, whose double PEN award-winning translation of Erpenbeck’s The End of Days is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman.

Read the interview in English PEN’s World Bookshelf here: http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/Writers-in-Translation-blog?item=35

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