Why a white poet did not translate Amanda Gorman
Why a white poet did not translate Amanda Gorman © Reuters Although Amanda Gorman's team backed the choice of the Dutch poet, there was an outcry in the Netherlands Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb stole the show at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration but when a renowned Dutch author was asked to translate her work there was an outcry because the translator is not black. Critics said it was not just about skin colour but identity too. This was not simply about translation but whether Gorman's poetry could be accurately reflected, interpreted by someone of a different ethnicity, genre, a...
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