interviews
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Idza Luhumyo, winner of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize, discusses short stories, agency, and power.
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Pajtim Statovci talks to Octavia Bright about tricky protagonists, Albanian mythology and multilingualism
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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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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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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on ghost stories, love stories, Trinidad, and grief.
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Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.
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Anuradha Roy on artists facing threat, publishing in India, and literary dogs.
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Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.
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French-Lebanese writer Charif Madjalani in conversation with journalist Ben East.
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An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.
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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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Samira Sedira discusses race, class, resentment and crime.
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The shortlisted translators of the 2021 International Booker Prize in conversation with Maureen Freely.
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Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.
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Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
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Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.
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Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.
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Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
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Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.
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