The day I met EL Doctorow: from Persian translations to his view of a writer's duty

After celebrated novelist’s death last week, Saeed Kamali Dehghan remembers an interview with him on everything from books to Iran’s copyright infringementMost famous writers don’t have a clue that their work has been translated into Persian and that they are literary celebrities in Iran. When they eventually find out, some are amused, others outraged. When I exchanged emails with Nobel laureate JM Coetzee in 2008, he asked me to pass on a statement to the Iranian news agencies that said copyright protection is not solely a matter of money. “It does upset writers, justifiably, when their books are taken over without permission, translated by amateurs and sold without their knowledge,” he wrote. Related: EL Doctorow obituary Related: EL Doctorow: the great American novelist of the past 100 years Related: EL Doctorow opened a magical new door in American literature Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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In the dark days of the pandemic, 36 famous authors found light in a collaborative novel

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