• CAMEROON - Interview with author Max Lobe and translator Ros Schwartz

  • Jan 23 2022
  • Length: 47 mins
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CAMEROON - Interview with author Max Lobe and translator Ros Schwartz

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  • Season 03 Episode 05 of the Intralingo World Lit Podcast

    Max is the most delightful guest who shared much about the wide-ranging themes he wanted to convey in this story and, as an extraordinarily talented and sensitive translator, Ros offered yet another dimension to this slim but deep novel.

    ~Lisa

    Lisa Carter
    Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc.

     

    00:00:36 – Introduction

    00:01:35 – Max shares what he wanted to write about: migration from Africa to Europe, Boko Haram, religion, family and LGBT issues

    00:03:33 – Max’s story of leaving Cameroon

    00:06:36 – Ros and Max’s collaboration

    00:09:00 – The language of Camfranglais

    00:12:04 – The politics of translation choices

    00:14:00 – Enriched the experience for readers

    00:15:25 – A place for glossaries in fiction

    00:15:51 – A tip for translators and varieties of English

    00:17:20 – Max’s approach to language

    00:19:32 – Awareness of English as a colonizing language

    00:20:53 – Examples of how Max and Ros collaborated

    00:23:17 – Vibrancy of sound, color, action in this novel

    00:25:15 – Cameroonian students critiqued Ros’s translation

    00:26:44 – The themes at the heart of the book

    00:30:55 – Max’s personal connections to the themes

    00:33:30 – Cameroon today

    00:36:45 – The relationship between the protagonists

    00:37:08 – The Gay Book Prize in France

    00:39:30 – The universal human experience

    00:41:10 – The particular experience Max wanted to explore

    00:44:05 – Shame, breaking free and where Max wants to go next

     

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