Man Booker International judge speaks out against lack of world literature in English

Marina Warner is to attack Britain’s ‘oddly provincial’ outlook on writing in other languages, and call for more translations

The British can be “oddly provincial in outlook” when it comes to literature, the writer and academic Marina Warner is due to say, as she calls for more translations to be made of literature from India, China and across the Arab world.

Warner, fresh from chairing the panel of judges that selected Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai as winner of the £60,000 Man Booker International prize, is set to give a public lecture at Birkbeck University on Tuesday evening exploring the nature of global fiction, and the dominance of English.

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