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Verden i Bergen: Valeria Luiselli

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[Podcast in English] "Violence starts with words", Mexican-born author Valieria Luiselli writes in her highly acclaimed essay-book Tell me how it ends. Luiselli, who has volunteered as a translator for undocumented migrant children in the US, claims that we need a new language on migration. Mexican-born Luiselli has at the age of 34 already received a number of awards for her books, most recently the American Book Award. Two of her novels are now being translated to Norwegian. She meets Teresa Grøtan to talk about her work. Winner of the American Book Award 2018. "Powerful and timely, dazzling and apt", Chicago Tribune. "The first must-read book of the Trump era", Texas Observer.