Season 2, Ep. 87: A conversation with literary translator Tina Kover

May 15

We enjoy reading translated books. It’s a big part of our reading lives. We’ve had a strong desire to be in conversation with literary translators on the podcast, and we finally got the chance to do so.

Highlights:

🎙 From wanting to join the foreign service to becoming a literary translator.
🎙 The way translations are pitched and commissioned is quite different than how a conventional author would pitch their work.
🎙 Translators are writers. It’s more than a process.

** Intro/outro music by Wataboi from Pixabay **

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Translated by Tina Kover

Publication Date: May 16, 2023

Anne Berest’s *The Postcard* is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.
Learn more about The Postcard

Watch Tina read a snippet of a translation for SPRING IN TEHRAN: DAILY LIFE IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC by Armin Arefi -- the book Tina really hopes a publisher will pick to be translated. Follow Tina’s YouTube channel, Translators Aloud and visit their website!