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Nerds on Tour (2020)

Introduction

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, by Ana Lily Amirpour, dir. (2014 film, Iran/Persia)

Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist (Novella, Spain)

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (2011 novel, Nigeria)

Black Orpheus, by Marcel Camus (dir) (1959 film, Brazil)

Interview with translator Rachel Cordasco

Taty Went West by Nikhil Singh (2015 Novel, South Africa)

Interview with translator Andy Dudak

Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah (2018 Novel, Pakistan)

A Snake Lies Waiting by Jin Yong, tr. Anna Holmwood and Gigi Chang (1959 Novel, China)

Questing in Shorts: Nerds on Tour Special

The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate, tr. David Bowles (1996 Novella, Mexico)

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1940 novel, Soviet Union)

Your Name (2016 Film, Japan)

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