A translator for Amanda Gorman's poem has been dropped in Spain CNN has also contacted Gorman's publisher, Viking Studio, and its parent company, Penguin, for comment. Gorman is the US youth poet laureate and was one of the breakout stars of US President Joe Biden's inauguration, where she read "The Hill We Climb." The publisher's decision comes shortly after Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld handed back a commission to translate Gorman's work, following a backlash from critics who questioned why a White writer had been chosen to translate a Black writer's work. Obiols told CNN that he thought the decision to revoke his commission was down to the pressure of US social movements.