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Recognized literary translators — Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them — are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves.

A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.

In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.

An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

But “I’m averse to entertaining the thought that what I’m working on is a first draft,” she says, “which implies the necessity of a second, even a third.” Her new book is “Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael.”

Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details.

He drew on his experiences as a German soldier during World War II to construct transformative ideas about God, Jesus and salvation.

Considered one of the leading Christian theologians of the 20th century, he insisted that any established set of beliefs had to confront the implications of Auschwitz.

Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award.