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“Translating Tahar Lamri's 'Cous Cous Klan'”
by Robert Elliot (published on https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/, October 2016)

I have listened to Tahar Lamri speak many times, in all sorts of places—from packed theaters to a rooftop terrace in Ferrara at two o’clock in the morning—and the remarkable thing about his voice is its quiet, even tone. Even when talking to hundreds of teenage school students in a crowded, echoey hall, he raises the volume only ever so slightly. But they always listen. There’s something about that relaxed, conversational Italian of his that commands attention and, to me, the sound of his voice is intrinsically linked to the things he writes. Whenever I read something in Italian by Tahar Lamri I cannot help but hear it, and that is the voice I want to hear when I read through my translation of “Cous Cous Klan.”...
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