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- 18 December 2023 - 16:30
Benjamin Zephaniah, a friend of the British Council
Rachel Willcocks and Sinead Russell look back at the life, work and impact of Benjamin Zephaniah and his friendship with the British Council.
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- Literature
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- 03 July 2019 - 15:44
Four ways your library can support language learning
Sonia Contreras and Cristina Sanchez are librarians at the British Council Young Learner Resource Centre in Madrid. They tell us how to set up storytelling events, writing clubs and more.
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- English language, Teaching resources, Literature
- Date
- 20 June 2019 - 10:59
How I became a Manga artist
Shangomola Edunjobi is a British Manga artist. He talks about the skills you need to make it in the industry, and how to turn storytelling into a career.
- Tags
- Literature, Visual Arts
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- 24 May 2019 - 16:03
'Societies don't like the in-between' – Kirsty Logan, author
Novelist Kirsty Logan talks about the right to be who you are, women's sexuality, fairy tales, pop culture, beauty and writing.
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- Literature, Women and girls, Fashion
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- 16 May 2019 - 18:19
'Writing a novel in English was no easy task' – Eugen Chirovici, crime writer
Crime writer Eugen Chirovici's work has been translated into 38 languages. His 11th novel, The Book of Mirrors, is his first book written in English language.
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- Literature
- Date
- 22 March 2019 - 13:24
Novelist Hamid Ismailov on storytelling, social media and censorship
Hamid Ismailov's novel The Devil's Dance, first published in Uzbek in a series of social media posts, won the EBRD Literature Prize 2019.
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- Literature, Technology
- Date
- 14 March 2019 - 08:17
Indonesian literature – history, humour and language
How have Indonesia's islands, languages, oral storytelling tradition, faith and politics influenced its thriving contemporary literary scene?
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- Literature
- Date
- 31 January 2019 - 11:02
'Translators think structurally' – Denis Beznosov, poet and translator
Denis Beznosov is Head of the Cultural Project Department at Russian State Children's Library. He spoke about translating poetry, and what children and young people are reading in Russia.
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- Literature
- Date
- 13 September 2018 - 13:26
One Arabic-English translator shares his experience
Tony Calderbank has been translating from Arabic to English since 1992. He shares some of the knowledge he has acquired along the way.
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- Literature, History
- Date
- 06 June 2018 - 15:00
'The work will not be quick' – Nancy Campbell, nature writer
Scottish author Nancy Campbell tells us about her approach to writing about the natural world, ahead of her appearance at the British Council Nature Writing Seminar in Munich.
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- Literature