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Linda Asher is a former fiction editor at the New Yorker and the translator of works by Victor Hugo, Georges Simenon, and Milan Kundera, among others.

Linda Asher is a former fiction editor at the New Yorker and the translator of works by Victor Hugo, Georges Simenon, and Milan Kundera, among others.

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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2017

Milan Kundera

The Festival of Insignificance

2002

Martin Winckler

The Case of Doctor Sachs

2000

Milan Kundera

Identity

1998

Milan Kundera

Slowness

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