We are pleased to share the work of our colleagues in the Department of Comparative Literature: the premier of Paraphrasis, a new podcast about literary translation. Paraphrasis is brought to you by a team of graduate students in the department.

Paraphrasis is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and on Substack. This season will feature interviews with Kareem Abdulrahman, Daniel Hahn, Sean Gasper Bye, Luke Leafgren, and Anne Fisher, as well as conversations with emerging translators working from languages such as Indonesian, Urdu, and Polish. With new episodes coming out every two weeks, make sure to click the subscribe button to receive regular updates about the show in their newsletter.

In the pilot episode, they meet Lara Norgaard to learn about her Indonesian to English translation of the genre-bending crime thriller, 24 Hours with Gaspar (Seagull Books). Lara recalls her first, fateful meeting with Sabda Armandio in a Jakarta coffee shop, as well as her process of conveying the humorous and horrifying word play and web of references that make this novel pop.

For more information: https://www.paraphrasispodcast.com.