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23 Mar 2022 Conversations with Tyler Lydia Davis on Language and Literature
“I never translated that long book which I learned Norwegian by reading, but I did translate some short stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug.”
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- Lydia Davis
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- 23 Mar 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Could you translate from the Norwegian if you were asked to? I actually have. I never translated that long book which I learned Norwegian by reading, but I did translate some short stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug. It’s hard to say her last name. They were actually in the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk. Norwegian has two languages, Bokmål and Nynorsk. It was in that language. I found her short stories so delightful that I did translate at least one of them. Also, some other works by a friend, by my Norwegian translator, actually, but these were all very short. Putting aside your husband’s own work, what in the visual arts excites you the most?…
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