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interviewsFebruary 24, 2023February 24, 2023

A Cake Full of Knives: An Interview with Elisa Victoria

Elisa Victoria on child narrators, comics, and post-Franco Spain. Translated by Charlotte Whittle.

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interviewsFebruary 2, 2023February 24, 2023

An Artificial Scarcity: Bertrand Cooper in Conversation with Momtaza Mehri

Bertrand Cooper speaks to Momtaza Mehri about the torsions of race and class in America.

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interviewsJanuary 19, 2023February 13, 2023

Telling Their Story As Truthfully As Possible: A Conversation with Ann-Helén Laestadius

Ann-Helén Laestadius on her latest novel Stolen, and the Sámi community.

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interviewsDecember 20, 2022January 23, 2023

The Third One Might Not Take as Long: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka on language, living history, labour and luck.

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interviewsAugust 1, 2022September 23, 2022

An Irresistible Contradiction: An Interview with Idza Luhumyo

Idza Luhumyo, winner of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize, discusses short stories, agency, and power.

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interviewsJune 28, 2022August 1, 2022

I Am a Writer Because My Will to Understand People Is Greater Than My Need to Judge Them: Pajtim Statovci in Conversation with Octavia Bright

Pajtim Statovci talks to Octavia Bright about tricky protagonists, Albanian mythology and multilingualism

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interviewsMay 26, 2022June 21, 2022

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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interviewsMarch 17, 2022April 8, 2022

Something Different Altogether: A Conversation with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on Islamophobia, storytelling, and the politics of existing.

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interviewsMarch 9, 2022March 30, 2022

My Crime, Being Born Illegal: Shen Yang in Conversation with Nicky Harman

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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interviewsFebruary 15, 2022March 9, 2022

In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on ghost stories, love stories, Trinidad, and grief.

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interviewsDecember 8, 2021December 22, 2021

The Epoch of Human Shame: An Interview with Samar Yazbek

Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.

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interviewsNovember 30, 2021December 20, 2021

The Threat of the Mob: An Interview with Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy on artists facing threat, publishing in India, and literary dogs.

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interviewsOctober 26, 2021November 30, 2021

Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin

Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.

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interviewsSeptember 28, 2021February 15, 2022

At the Foot of the Volcano: Charif Majdalani in Conversation with Ben East

French-Lebanese writer Charif Madjalani in conversation with journalist Ben East.

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interviewsAugust 6, 2021August 21, 2021

Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero

An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.

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interviewsJuly 22, 2021August 21, 2021

Translating Place and Places of Translation: A Conversation Between the Shadow Heroes Collective

Ayça Türkoğlu, Filiz Emre, Gitanjali Patel, Harriet Phillips, Jessie Spivey, Katharine Halls, Kavita Bhanot, Khairani Barokka, Naima Rashid, Nariman Youssef, Mohini Gupta and Reem Abou-El-Fadl

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interviewsJuly 2, 2021July 22, 2021

In Their Minds: An Interview with Samira Sedira

Samira Sedira discusses race, class, resentment and crime.

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interviewsMay 28, 2021October 6, 2021

The Words We Choose II: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

The shortlisted translators of the 2021 International Booker Prize in conversation with Maureen Freely.

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interviewsApril 30, 2021December 23, 2021

Decolonial Feminisms: An Interview with Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.

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interviewsFebruary 16, 2021March 5, 2021

Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.

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