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Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)

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Translator of Malady - Is That Just My Imagination?

Am, in latin ah, the word for translator is interpreter. So it's still working through some set of related problems, in a way. And i think one thing that's always sort of in there is this idea translation and bringing back and crossing over. It strikes me because now, many yearsme, so, i wrote interpreter of maladies. That was my first book. I called it that i heard the title in this strange, you know, flash, am. Now years later, years have gone by, and i'm now just setting out on a ne phase of my creative life as a translator a. Is that just my imagination? Probably not, but i don't

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