One Tongue to Another: Found in Translation

Bookish Diversions: Orwell in Zimbabwe and Eastern Europe, AI Limitations, Translation Challenges, Rediscovering Seneca

¶ Orwell’s trip to Africa. A group of authors in Zimbabwe has teamed up to translate George Orwell’s Animal Farm in Shona, the African country’s dominate language. What motivated the effort, which culminated with a June publication after eight years of work?

“Animal Farm has long been one of my favorite novels,” said team lead Petina Gappah when first an…