Yarri Kamara on 'So Distant from my life' ( French - Burkina Faso)

Yarri Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-Ugandan translator, writer and policy researcher. She recently relocated to Milan, Italy after having lived in Burkina Faso for almost two decades. After years of translating academic and technical texts from French and Italian into English, Yarri ventured into literary translation observing that few African authors were being translated by African translators. Her translation of Monique Ilboudo’s So Distant From My Life (Tilted Axis Press, 2022) won a PEN-Heim translation grant and was shortlisted for the 2023 National Translation in Prose Award in the US. She recently co-edited an anthology of essays, poems and visual discourses from the Sahara region: Sahara: A thousand paths into the future (Sternberg Press, 2023). Her own essays and poems have been featured in Africa Is A Country, Brittle Paper, Courrier International, Lolwe, The Republic and Welt-Sichten.In this episode, She spoke about her writing career, Translations and the book ' So Distant from My life'.Photo Credit : Anne Mimault* For your Valuable feedback on this Episode - Please click the below linkhttps://bit.ly/epfedbckHarshaneeyam on Spotify App –http://bit.ly/harshaneeyam Harshaneeyam on Apple App –http://apple.co/3qmhis5 *Contact us - [email protected] ***Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Interviewees in interviews conducted by Harshaneeyam Podcast are those of the Interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Harshaneeyam Podcast. Any content provided by Interviewees is of their opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp