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Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Leslie, author of 'Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism', and writer, poet, editor and curator Jen Calleja, who is currently Translator in Residence at the British Library. WORKS REFERENCED Tom Overton on Anya Berger (Frieze) - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins / https://frieze.com/article/anya-berger-1923-2018 Name the Translator campaign - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/name-the-translator Theodor W. Adorno SVETLANA ALEXEIVICH, Second-Hand Time (2013, trans. Bela Shayevich) - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/from-second-hand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich-1/ Roland Barthes Charles Baudelaire WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller (2016) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2101-the-storyteller WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Task of the Translator' (1923) WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https