SEAN GASPER BYE

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Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish literature, including books by Lidia Ostałowska, Filip Springer, Małgorzata Szejnert, and Szczepan Twardoch. A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he studied modern languages at University College London and international studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He spent five years as Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York. He is a winner of the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship.

 

Books

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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
$22.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020

History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town
History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town
$17.99

By Filip Springer

Translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.

Paperback •  ISBN: 9781632061157
Publication date: Apr 4, 2017

 
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Check Out Photojournalist Filip Springer's Photos from his American Tour!
Check Out Photojournalist Filip Springer's Photos from his American Tour!

Photojournalist and author of History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town, is just back in Poland after a lightning two-week tour of the United States, and he managed to take some photos between all his events. We at Restless are grateful to have met this multitalented man and, after reading his incisive reportage about a Polish town, to see our own urban landscapes through his finely tuned eyes. Check out the remarkable shots he took on tour.
Events for 'History of a Disappearance' Author Filip Springer