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Jessica Cohen

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british-israeli-american translator”. Today it says “british-israeli-american into a bar was awarded the 2017 man booker international prize”.
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Jessica Cohen ( Hebrew : ג'סיקה כהן ; born 1973) is a British-Israeli-American literary translator. A Horse Walks Into a Bar was awarded the 2017 Man Booker International Prize .

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british-israeli-american translator

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british-israeli-american into a bar was awarded the 2017 man booker international prize

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