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Chapter 1
Introduction: Anne Meadows and Lisette Verhagen
Anne Meadows, commissioning editor at Portobello and Granta, and Lisette Verhagen, foreign-rights agent at David Godwin Associates, join Robert Bound in the studio to discuss the recent rise in translated fiction sales.
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Chapter 2
Deborah Smith, Man Booker International Prize-winning translator
Deborah Smith is a London-based translator who works with Korean literature. Two weeks ago she and South Korean author Han Kang took home the Man Booker International Prize for Kang’s beautifully written novel ‘The Vegetarian’. Monocle’s Andrew Mueller meets Deborah to find out about the delicate process of transforming someone’s words into another language and her relationship with Kang throughout the process.
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Chapter 3
Deep Vellum publishers and book shop, Dallas
We meet the people behind Deep Vellum, a not-for-profit publishers and book shop based in Dallas that seeks to connect the world’s greatest contemporary writers with English-speaking readers. Monocle contributor Lyndsay Knecht reports.
10 minutes
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