Esther Karin Mngodo: 'I am more myself when I write in Swahili'
Last year we heard from Daisy Johnson, Judith Vanistendael, Scott Jacobs and Hannah Webb. We bring our Autumn series to a close – just in time for Winter – with Esther Karin Mngodo and the translator Jay Boss Rubin, who join us to talk about First Date.
Mngodo tells us how this story ate another of her short stories, Without Sun.
"It came from the idea of how things are within other things," she says, "how everything is interconnected."
In First Date, the links stretch across an entire millennium. Mngodo feels that we still have much in common with each other, even across vast distances of…
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