13 Dec 2020
Dr. Mohamed Ait Mihoub, 2020 Translation Award winner, shares his views on Writing during a Pandemic: “It was a strange coincidence that I had just started translating the work of Maupassant, which revolves around the concept of solitude. And so, I enjoyed this accidental juxtaposition between the current situation and the work I did. And in all cases, let’s not forget that translation, at its very core, is an attempt to break through solitude, because translation is a journey after all; from language to language, from culture to culture, from thought to thought. And it’s imperative that whatever we work on is the start point to a journey that ends with meeting the other, linguistically and culturally.”