Kate Briggs

Kate Briggs grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project 'Short Pieces That Move'. She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together , both published by Columbia University Press. The Long Form follows This Little Art , a narrative essay on the practice of translation. In 2021, Kate Briggs was awarded...See more

Kate Briggs grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project 'Short Pieces That Move'. She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together , both published by Columbia University Press. The Long Form follows This Little Art , a narrative essay on the practice of translation. In 2021, Kate Briggs was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. See less