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In this short video about the novel Kairos (Granta Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize, German author Jenny Erpenbeck speaks about the universality of themes of hope, decay, and disappointment in the story and translator Michael Hoffmann talks about maintaining the spirit of the text through translation.
Tags: Fiction | Translation | Jenny Erpenbeck | Michael Hoffmann | Kairos | Granta Books | International Booker Prize | interview | 2024