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WRITING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE

Third Programme
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by Attia Hosain
The speaker, who writes in English but whose books are set in India, describes the difficulties creative writers meet when ' pre-translating' not only their own language but the assumptions and atmosphere of their country into terms comprehensible to English readers.

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