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Kim Echlin is a Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has travelled around the world for her research. The Disappeared is translated into 20 languages, won the Barnes and Noble prize and was short-listed for The Giller. Speak, Silence, about women and justice at the International Criminal Court, won the City of Toronto Book award.
She won the CBC Creative Nonfiction award and the Dalton Camp award for nonfiction. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International. Author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN.

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	The Disappeared 3.73 avg rating — 3,809 ratings — published 2009 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Visible Life 4.02 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak, Silence 4.06 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elephant Winter 3.59 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer by Kim Echlin (Goodreads Author), Linda Wolfsgruber (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dagmar's Daughter 3.55 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disappeared 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inanna: A New English Version 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue Essay on Women and Creativity 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“A soul protects itself from what it cannot bear.”
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“People do not really change; we are only undefeated because we have gone on trying.”
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“The strangeness of my love for you is that it has made me dead in life and you alive in death.”
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