Seeing People Off - Be&
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"Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature"--Cover.

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Author Jana Benová is one of the most acclaimed Slovakian writers, and winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. She is a poet and novelist, author of the novels Seeing People Off, Away! Away!, Parker, and Honeymoon, as well as three collections of poems. Though her work has been widely translated, Seeing People Off is her first work to be translated into English. Translator Janet Livingstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and ventured to Czechoslovakia just after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. In total, she spent 15 years in Bratislava in Slovakia. In 2003, she began translating films and plays from Slovak to English and hasn't looked back since. Among her full-length book translations are Master your Stage Fright by Slovak master violinist, Bohdan Warchal and Piata lod (working title: Boat Number Five) by novelist Monika Kompaníková. In addition to Jana Benová, her current translation projects include the novels The Best of All Worlds by Slovak-Swiss author Irena Brezná and The Arab World-Another Planet? by Emire Khidayer. Janet lives in Seattle with her two children and also speaks French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and elementary Japanese to anyone who will listen. Translator Janet Livingstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and ventured to Czechoslovakia just after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. In total, she spent 15 years in Bratislava in Slovakia. In 2003, she began translating films and plays from Slovak to English and hasn't looked back since. Among her full-length book translations are Master your Stage Fright by Slovak master violinist, Bohdan Warchal and Piata lod (working title: Boat Number Five) by novelist Monika Kompaníková. In addition to Jana Benová, her current translation projects include the novels The Best of All Worlds by Slovak-Swiss author Irena Brezná and The Arab World-Another Planet? by Emire Khidayer. Janet lives in Seattle with her two children and also speaks French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and elementary Japanese to anyone who will listen.