Translating Ulysses

A Portrait of A Writer Translating James Joyce into Kurdish

5.3

|2023|71 min

Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank's former house in Amsterdam. Will he be able to finish the translation of Ulysses and publish it?

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