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<\/a>First, Leslie Tate begins an interview with Mark Statman<\/a> on the topics of Exile Home<\/em><\/a>, fatherhood, translation, Mark’s move into happy exile from Brooklyn to Oaxaca, and most everything else. Part 1 of a long interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Will_Firth_2015_01.jpg\")
<\/a>Next, please check out this tandem interview<\/a> with A Novel of London<\/em><\/a> translator Will Firth<\/a> and 2020 European Union Prize for Literature winner, Stefan Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 at Asymptote<\/a>, <\/em>in which Jovanka Kalaba questions each about literature, politics, language, and the current state of Balkan letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"