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personal essaysJanuary 11, 2022February 15, 2022

All My Languages

Ariel Saramandi on Mauritius, identity, and the languages in which she writes, thinks and dreams.

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interviewsJune 30, 2020July 21, 2020

The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.

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interviewsJune 2, 2020June 27, 2020

Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Three writers discuss language and power.

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interviewsDecember 12, 2019January 28, 2020

With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami

Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.

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nature and its absenceAugust 23, 2018

Someone else’s words in your mouth

In this imagining of yourself you speak English and it is 2018 and you identify as female. The world seems to be caving in around you, almost apocalyptic. You begin to notice words more than you have done before.

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archiveJuly 24, 2013

Writing in the Language of ‘the Other’

In another fascinating piece for PEN Atlas, Gazmend Kapllani recounts his journey through languages, the difficulties and opportunities of being a multi-lingual author and how the language of the Other goes back to Homer and the birth of storytelling

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archiveJune 14, 2012

How international is poetry?

When the projection fails during the Finnish poet Olli Heikkonen’s reading and the slides with parallel Dutch and English translations disappear from the stage, poetry suddenly doesn’t seem that international anymore.

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