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archiveJanuary 29, 2015

You speak such good German

Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author

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UncategorizedNovember 28, 2014

But why do you write your books in English and Turkish?

Elif Shafak investigates what makes the bilingual author choose to write in one language and not another

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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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