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Back to Podcast EpisodesThe Art And Business Of Literary Translation With Dani James
What happens when you fall in love with a book that deserves a wider audience but has never been translated into English? How do you navigate international copyright law, multiple publishers, and estate permissions when you have no translation experience? Dani James shares her journey from discovering a powerful Flemish memoir in her childhood home to becoming its first English translator, a labor of love that took years to complete.
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Dani James is a writer and literary translator who recently translated Return to the Place I Never Left, a Holocaust survivor memoir by Tobias Schiff.
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Show Notes
- Growing up in Belgium's Jewish community and discovering Tobias Schiff's Holocaust memoir
- Navi
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