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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE is editor-at-large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.
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The 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist announced
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She discusses why the subjects at the heart of The Book of Mother resonated with her and how reading memoirs set in Paris prepared her for the translation.
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Discover the longlist: Jessica Cohen, ‘Fiction is where I feel most comfortable and most creative’
The winner of the 2017 International Booker Prize discusses how she views familiarity as an asset in her work.
She discusses how she channelled her real-life experiences with her own mother into her work.
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Discover the longlist: Jonas Eika, ‘In writing, you have to embrace your inclinations and tastes’
Eika tells us why he challenged himself to write unplanned and without boundaries.
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Discover the longlist: Sherilyn Hellberg, ‘My translations percolate with whatever else I’m reading’
Hellberg details her journey into the world of translation and the wealth of contemporary Danish fiction that captivated her.
The prolific Norwegian writer discusses the final installment in his hypnotic Septology that took him five years to write.
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Discover the shortlist: Damion Searls, ‘Septology has one of the great dogs in literature’
Searls discusses the unique body of work that is Fosse’s Septology.
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Discover the shortlist: Olga Tokarczuk, ‘The encyclopedia showed me the enormity of the world’
The critically-acclaimed author discusses the beauty she sees in English-language translation.