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Aaron Robertson

Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego's Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This biography was last updated on 10/01/2024.

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