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Interview: James Currey über Literatur aus Afrika

[Foto: Kuukuwa Manful/Africa Oxford Initiative]

In dieser Episode unserer Interviewreihe hat Lynda Iroulo James Currey zu Gast, Mitbegründer des in Oxford ansässigen Verlages James Currey Publishers und neben dem nigerianischen Dichter Chinua Achebe einer der Köpfe hinter der 1962 entstandenen African Writers Series.

Im Interview spricht der Verleger über seine Anfänge im Geschäft, gegenwärtige Stimmen in der afrikanischen Literatur und warum er nicht daran denkt, bald aufzuhören.

Eine gekürzte, schriftliche Version des Interviews sowie das gesamte Interview als Audiodatei (beides auf Englisch) finden Sie hier.

Interview: James Currey on publishing African Literature

[Photo: Kuukuwa Manful/Africa Oxford Initiative]

In this episode of our interview series, our host Lynda Iroulo talks to James Currey, co-founder of the Oxford-based James Currey Publishers and, together with Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe, creator of the African Writers Series launched in 1962.

Listen in, as Currey gives insight into his first steps in the publishing business and contemporary African literature, and why he doesn’t intend to stop what he is doing any time soon.

Find an abridged transcription of the interview below or listen to the full one here:

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