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Translating "Ada's Realm" : A Translators' Chat with Jon Cho-Polizzi, translator of Sharon Dodua Otoo's "Adas Raum" Cho-Polizzi, Jon

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Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Ada’s Realm (German: Adas Raum) is a tour de force of West African history, Black German identity, Holocaust memory, and contemporary decolonial cosmologies. Winner of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016, Otoo (b. 1972 in London) rose to fame as an additional-language writer of German, coming from a Black British intellectual and social formation.

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