Ghost Writing: Translation, Death and Renewal

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Alice Whitemore is a writer and literary translator from Spanish and Italian. Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos’s Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo, and lives on Peek Whurrung country.

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