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Rebecca Ruth Gould [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Translator
Public address: 
London, UK
United Kingdom
GB
Email: 
rg52@soas.ac.uk
Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Georgian
Persian
Russian
Favorite authors: 
Writers of importance to me include Virginia Woolf, Mahmoud Darwish, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Titsian Tabidze (a Georgian poet), Jorge Luis Borges, Danilo Kis, Magomed Mamakaev (a Chechen poet), George Eliot, Franz Kafka, and Edith Wharton. Thinkers who have influenced me include Giambattista Vico, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emma Goldman.
Twitter/X: 
@rrgould
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Washington, DC, New York, Sacramento, Tampa, OR
Oregon
RSS feed: 
https://medium.com/@rrgould [2]
Website: 
https://rrgould.hcommons.org [3]
Prizes won: 

British Academy Writing Workshop, “Southern Global Epistemologies” (2018); Monograph Award, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (shared with co-author, 2018), Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize, British Association of American Studies (2018); Finalist, Lunch Ticket's Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts (co-recipient with Kayvan Tahmasebian, 2017); Finalist, The Coil's Luminaire Award for Best Poetry (Alternating Current Press, 2017); Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, Modern Languages Association, Women’s Caucus (2015); Charles Schmitt Prize, International Society for Intellectual History (2015); Translator’s Honorarium, Literature in Translation Program, Georgian National Book Center (2015); Mentorship in Literary Translation, British Centre for Literary Translation, Arts Council England (2013);  American Literary Translators Association Fellowship (2007)

What I'm reading now: 
Homo Poeticus: Essays and Interviews by Danilo Kiš
Stolen Air by Osip Mandel'shtam (trans. Christian Wiman)
Writers Retreats: 
American Literary Translators Association Conference
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Immigration
Incarcerated Individuals

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/rebecca_ruth_gould [2] https://medium.com/@rrgould [3] https://rrgould.hcommons.org