Longing to be Understood: Language and Story

Fabiano Alborghetti, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sjón Sigurdsson, Stephen Sparks

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These three writers use language creatively, sometimes bending it wildly, to express human truths across people and cultures. They also play with myth and metaphor. What happens when their language and stories are translated? How do the different forms in which they write — fiction, poetry, playwriting, essays, lyrics — convey meaning differently?