Ready for Frankfurt Book Fair: Next Page’s Balkan Catalogue in Arabic

In the run-up to Frankfurter Buchmesse, a joint project between the Translation Collider and Next Page Foundation: translators’ choices of Balkan works in Arabic   By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Important Role of the Literary Translator’ ranslators are the ones making the choices behind the six works featured in a new catalogue of Balkan works translated into Arabic. .. The post Ready for Frankfurt Book Fair: Next Page’s Balkan Catalogue in Arabic appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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