Literary Translation

I caught the end of this segment on literature in translation on the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Book, presented by Mariella Frostrup.

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Blurb on the BBC site:
Novels in translation
This week, more than 500 literary figures put their signatures to a letter protesting about Arts Council England's decision to cut funding to two small publishers specialising in foreign literature in translation. Mariella is joined by Tom Tivnan of The Bookseller to find out why publishing translated fiction is such an expensive business, and discuss whether public funding is the way forward.