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  • Episode 242
  • 30 May 2016
  • 30 min

Why are books in translation such big business?

  • Monocle on Culture
  • Episode 242
  • 30 min

Robert Bound investigates the recent rise in translated fiction with sidekicks Anne Meadows, commissioning editor at Portobello and Granta, and Lisette Verhagen, foreign-rights agent at David Godwin Associates. Plus: we hear from Deborah Smith, Man Booker International Prize-winning translator and head to Deep Vellum books in Dallas.

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  • Robert Bound

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