Making Love with the Tongue - Translating & editing Gabriela Babnik

Translator from Slovene, Rawley Grau, talks to poet Stephen Watts about his experience of working on the novel, Dry Season. The book won the EU Prize for Literature for its author, Gabriela Babnik, and is a fascinating, intricate exploration of a love affair between a European woman and an African man.

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Istros Conversations has been set up by Istros Books to talk about the art of literature, with particular attention to literature in translation, and the process through which words are remade and thoughts conveyed across languages and cultures. Listen to interviews and discussions with authors, translators, and those working in the world of translation. Istros Books is an independent publisher which specializes in literature in translation from the Balkans and South-East Europe. Istros is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.