Front Row - International Booker Prize longlist reviewed, Joanne Harris, Who should translate work?
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Novelist Nadifa Mohamed and translator Maureen Freely review the just-announced longlist for the International Booker Prize 2021.
Author Joanne Harris talks to her Italian translator Laura Grandi, her collaborator of 22 years, about their special partnership.
Plus writer and artist Khairani Barokka and Maureen Freely explore the question of how to choose who is the best person to translate each text, in light of the recent departure of several translators from the project of translating the work of Black US inauguration poet Amanda Gorman.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Simon Richardson
Studio Engineer: Donald MacDonald
Published on Tuesday, 30th March 2021.
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