Ep 16 - A Large Latte and a Translated Book Please plus Translator Didi Chanoch!

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🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode, Brea and Mallory discuss translated fiction, interview publisher and translator Didi Chanoch, and Brea thinks you should eat some pancakes. Use the hashtag #TranslatedBookLove on Instagram and Twitter to participate in online discussion! Links - Language of Laughter Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lolforacause/ Didi Chanoch - https://twitter.com/didic http://www.novapress.co.il/ http://hugonoms2018.wikia.com/wiki/Hugo_Nominees_2018_Wiki http://www.sfintranslation.com/ http://bibliobio.blogspot.com/ https://womenintranslation.tumblr.com/ Shana Dubois - https://twitter.com/booksabound Translated Genre Books - http://booksabound.net/2017/09/19/translation-station-reading-glasses-podcast/ PEN Translated Book Prize - https://pen.org/literary-award/pen-translation-prize-3000/ Best Translated Book Award - http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=18842 Gray Wolf Press - https://www.graywolfpress.org/ FSG - https://us.macmillan.com/fsg/ Soft Skull Press - https://softskull.com/ Melville House - https://www.mhpbooks.com/ https://twitter.com/melvillehouse Books- Who Fears Death? By Nnedi Okorafor https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756406691 Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142420911 Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062323644 Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lucio Cardoso, translated by Benjamin Moser, Margaret Jull Costa https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781940953502 Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780811223966 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307887443 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062459367 Dune by Frank Herbert https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780441172719 The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780756413316 Uprooted by Naomi Novik https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780804179034 Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765385505

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:06.7	to help you read better.
0:08.3	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.
0:11.0	And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:13.6	This episode we're talking about translated books and interviewing writer and translator,
0:18.2	Diddy Hanaq.
0:19.2	But first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:21.0	I just finished Nettie A- Acora For's Who Fear Stuff.
0:24.2	Oh, the one that's getting turned into a TV show.
0:26.5	Yeah, it's getting turned into a TV show by George R. Martin, and when I was reading it,
0:30.5	I was thinking, you know, Game of Thrones is really dark. I don't know if you could ever
0:34.4	go darker than game of thrones but guess what net ecorefora.
0:37.2	Nettie corpsfora is like holding my beer.
0:40.1	Nettie corps for who I, this is a dark book.
0:44.8	There are so many trigger warnings in this book.
0:46.3	I actually don't even know if I can get to all of them.
0:48.5	But if you are...
0:49.5	I remember you telling me about this book and you're just...
0:51.1	Yeah, we're talking about citywide rapes
0:52.8	cliterectomy's it is a very intense book but it is it is great it's a post
0:57.3	apocalyptic set in Africa there is magic there's a strong female lead for those who like that plucky strong female female
1:07.2	young female lead and there's all these different class and sort of race relations within the world they're living in, but
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