Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
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Aguita Cristo, a Writer in Another Language, Not the Mother Tongue
Amgar left italian during the invasion to fled to switzerland with her small kids, her husband and her dictionaries. She taught herself how to write in french,. And all her literary work is, is in french. So i came to her in translation, but not in an english translation... My life was never the same after reading her. Yho, just, we mean, forever altered. In some sense.
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