Topic: Roberto Bolano

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How foreign writers make it to US bookshelves

They have to fight to overcome one glaring statistic: Only 3 percent of the books published in the US each year are books in translation.
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In defense of American literature
A translator's task – to disappear

Natasha Wimmer's acclaimed translation of Roberto Bolaño's '2666' is giving foreign works new prominence.
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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.

When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.