Shash Trevett
Modern Poetry in Translation
English - September 06, 2013 15:24 - 5 minutes - 6.25 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Places & Travel poetry translation literature world modern culture international literary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Shash Trevett, now living in York, came to the U.K. from Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape the civil war. For many years she stopped speaking and writing in Tamil, a language which she has now started to re-engage with in her poetry.