ISABEL FARGO COLE is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Sleep of the Righteous, “I,” Old Rendering Plant (for which she received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize), and The Tidings of the Trees. She has also been the recipient of a prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and her novel Die grüne Grenze was a finalist for the 2018 Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse.
Other titles by Wolfgang Hilbig available from Two Lines Press
The Tidings of the Trees
Old Rendering Plant
The Sleep of the Righteous
Copyright
Originally published as Die Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bäumen by Wolfgang Hilbig, Werke, Erzählungen
© 2010, S. Fischer Verlag GmbH,
Frankfurt am Main
Translation © 2018 by Isabel Fargo Cole
Two Lines Press
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ISBN 978-1-931883-76-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018948090
Cover design by Gabriele Wilson
Cover photo by Millennium Images/Adrian Muttitt
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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
