pentransmissions
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Julian Barnes on collecting books, reading books, and annotating books.
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Pajtim Statovci talks to Octavia Bright about tricky protagonists, Albanian mythology and multilingualism
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on decolonising literature about Việt Nam by writing in the language of the coloniser.
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Astrid Alben on language, childhood, photographs and translation.
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The Words We Choose III: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators in Conversation
The shortlisted translators of the 2022 International Booker Prize in conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama.
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June Bellebono on the pigeonholing of identities, being commissioned on topics other than that which you embody, and Love Island.
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler on material as a part of reading, the making of zines, and writing there are more things.
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Thomas de Waal on sending Osman Kavala books to read in Silivri Prison.
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The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.
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Najwa Bin Shatwan on her geographic and writerly journey. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on Islamophobia, storytelling, and the politics of existing.
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Shen Yang speaks to Nicky Harman about the One Child policy, “excess-birth daughters”, and her memoir, More Than One Child.
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Anandi Mishra on Mukherjee Nagar and her journey to writing.
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on ghost stories, love stories, Trinidad, and grief.
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Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent responds to Ai Weiwei’s postcard.
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Fatima Daas on names. Translated by Lara Vergnaud.
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Ariel Saramandi on Mauritius, identity, and the languages in which she writes, thinks and dreams.
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Daniela Hodrová on the city. Translated by Elena Sokol.
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Sascha A. Akhtar on the literature of South Asia, and young people translating Urdu poetry.
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Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.
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