Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world
Ann Morgan: Můj rok čtení knih ze všech zemí světa
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a lot about a person
this question a few years ago,
as a fairly cultured,
a rather different story.
nothing in translation.
cultural blind spot in my reading
it seemed like a real shame.
of amazing stories out there
other than English.
that my reading habits meant
international year for the UK;
pro Británii,
as my time frame
svůj časový rámec
short story collection
sbírky povídek
practical problems.
different lists of countries in the world
Spojenými národy, ke kterým
of UN-recognized nations,
how to fit reading and blogging
jak přečíst čtyři knihy týdně,
that I might even not be able
from every country.
of the literary works published
of the English-speaking world.
anglicky mluvících zemí.
of translated books published
will come from countries
primed to go out and sell those titles
prodávání titulů
books are translated from French
je přeloženo
like France or Switzerland.
Francie nebo Švýcarsko,
actually quite a lot of nations
commercially available literature
komerčně dostupnou
know where to start.
almost exclusively British
sourcing and finding stories
of the rest of the world.
a story from Swaziland.
jak nalézt příběh ze Svazijska.
going to read the world?
what I might read
co si mohu přečíst
anyone would be interested,
někoho zajímat,
of me posting that appeal online,
called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur.
z Kuala Lumpuru.
the sound of my project,
English-language bookshop
and post it to me?
not one, but two books --
ale dvě knihy -
that she had also picked out for me.
kterou pro mne také vybrala.
to be the pattern for that year.
vzorcem celého roku.
out of their way to help me.
on holidays and business trips
nebo při služebních cestách
to read the world,
with an open mind,
available literature in English,
literatury v angličtině,
z překvapivých zdrojů.
came through a conversation
vzešla z konverzace
has a Twitter account.
and get hold of the work
Juan David Morgan.
and I sent him a message,
poslala mu dotaz,
Spanish-language novels
had been published,
one of the first people ever
sent me self-published books
své knihy
up by Anglophone publishers
anglofonními vydavateli
of some remarkable imaginary worlds.
do pozoruhodných imaginárních světů.
Ngungunhane, who led the resistance
který vedl hnutí odporu
in the 19th century;
in a remote village
in Turkmenistan.
v Turkmenistánu.
Bridget Jonesové.
in a tree in Angola.
were prepared to go to
from the tiny, Portuguese-speaking
portugalsky hovořícího
of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Svatý Tomáš a Princův ostrov.
trying everything I could think of to find
into English from the nation,
the only option left to me
translated for me from scratch.
to want to help with this,
for something like that.
a call out on Twitter and Facebook
involve in the project,
než kolik bylo potřeba,
a leader in her field,
of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
José Saramaga.
by a São Toméan author
v dosti výtiscích.
to each of my volunteers.
of short stories from this collection,
their translations back to me,
své překlady.
I had the entire book to read.
during my year of reading the world,
za ten rok potvrdilo,
about my limitations
o svých limitech
a Princova ostrova
to learn something new
něco nového
a group of people
the project's strength.
silnou stránkou projektu.
opened my eyes to many things.
mi otevřely oči.
to take you out of yourself
through different eyes.
different values to your own.
can help clarify your own thinking.
si tříbíte vlastní myšlení.
been looking at the world.
of the English-language literature
na anglickou literaturu,
that the world has to offer.
I'd started the year with, changed
register of place names
that it's at all possible
ucelený přehled
simply by reading one book.
I read that year
of our remarkable planet.
to such lengths to help me read them
books have to connect us
cultural, social, religious divides.
sociálními a náboženskými propastmi.
human beings have to work together.
in, where, thanks to the Internet,
kdy je díky Internetu,
a worldview, a book
knihu
on the other side of the planet.
na druhém konci planety.
for many years to come.
i v dalších letech.
připojí.
there'd be more incentive
bude to podnětem pro
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ann Morgan - Writer, blogger, authorAnn Morgan challenged herself to read a book from every country in the world.
Why you should listen
One day British writer Ann Morgan realized that most books in her bookshelves were by British or American authors. She undertook to read, over the course of a year, at least one book from each of the world's 196 countries -- texts often suggested by bibliophiles from all over the world.
Her experience inspired her book Reading the World (US title: The World Between Two Covers). She blogs about international literature, and her first novel, a psychological literary thriller called Beside Myself, will be published in January 2016.
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