"I encourage the translators of my books to……" — Michael Cunningham

"I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself."

— Michael Cunningham

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