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Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
May 29, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
The Omani novelist Jokha al-Harthi and the translator Marilyn Booth won this year's Man Booker International prize for fiction in translation, for the novel Celestial Bodies, an account of three sisters living in the village of al-Awafi in an Oman on the brink of change. A couple of days after the announcement, at Waterstones book shop in Piccadilly, the winners spoke to the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak about the novel, Arabic culture and modernisation, translation, and women’s wisdom.
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Released:
May 29, 2019
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Podcast episode
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