MPT 8: France, Germany, Greece, Italy Anna Lewis Prize-winning Saudi Arabian author Raja

Prize-winning Saudi Arabian author Raja Alem recounts her passion for reading as a child and the world authors she read

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Rachida Madani A poem from Tales from a Severed Head

MPT 8: France, Germany, Greece, Italy Anna Lewis Prize-winning Saudi Arabian author RajaApollinaire, Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, Michle Deguy, Eustache Deschamps, Jacques Dupin, Loius Ren des Forts, Guillevic, Henry Jacques, Philippe Jaccottet, Max Jacob, Paul de Roux; plus Timothy Ades on poems from Perec's novel La Disparition, John Du Val on translating fabliaux, Felix Leakery on translating Baudelaire, Harry Guest on tranlating the music of French verse and Heinrich Heine, Georg Trakl, Odysseus Elytis, Patrizia Cavalli, Valerio