Lucy Jones, translator of Brigitte Reimann’s ‘Siblings’
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Monocle’s Lilian Fawcett sits down with Lucy Jones, the Berlin-based translator of Brigitte Reimann’s ‘Siblings’, to talk about the author’s life in communist East Germany. They spoke about Reimann’s short but tumultuous life, translating her distinctive writing style and what a 60-year-old novel can offer contemporary readers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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