Boyd Tonkin

Foreign fields: Boyd Tonkin chooses his favourite shorter classics in translation

A wide range of authors includes Colette, Italo Calvino, Clarice Lispector, Natalia Ginzburg and Tove Jansson

Colette, author of Chéri , aged 20. Getty Images 
issue 04 July 2020
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