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International Booker Prize longlist reviewed, Joanne Harris, Who should translate work?

International Booker Prize longlist reviewed, Joanne Harris and her Italian translator, Who should translate work?

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

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The 2021 International Booker Prize longlist

The 2021 International Booker Prize longlist
  • I Live in the Slums by Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, Yale University Press 
  • At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated from French by Anna Mocschovakis, Pushkin Press
  • The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway, Peirene Press
  • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, Granta Books
  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, Pushkin Press
  • The Perfect Nine: The Epic Gikuyu and Mumbi by NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o, translated from Gikuyu by the author, VINTAGE, Harvill Secker
  • The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Lolli Editions
  • Summer Brother by Jaap Robben, translated from Dutch by David Doherty, World Editions
  • An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith, Quercus, MacLehose Press
  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale, Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley, And Other Stories
  • The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard, translated from French by Mark Polizzotti, Pan Macmillan, Picador

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