Roy Kesey is an American
author
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. His books include ''Any Deadly Thing'', ''Pacazo'', ''All Over'', ''Nothing in the World'' and an historical guide to the city of Nanjing, China.
His short fiction has been included in
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and such journals as ''
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'', ''
The Georgia Review
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'' and ''
The Iowa Review''. His story "Double Fish" won the 2009 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from ''
The Missouri Review
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.
In addition to his work as a writer, Kesey has translated two novels by
Pola Oloixarac
Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator.
Biography
She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. After finishing her post-graduate studies for Ph ...
, ''Savage Theories'' and ''Dark Constellations''.
References
External links
Kesey's websiteinterview
in ''SmokeLong Quarterly'', August 15, 2004
Living people
American male novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
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