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Issue 14: Ilija Trojanow, guest at Bookmarks

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Synopsis

Ilija Trojanow is an international bestselling author and has visited Australia as a guest of the Goethe-Institut and the Adelaide Writers Week 2010. In his conversation with Trudi Latour he discusses his famous novel "The Collector of Worlds", which is build around the real life character Sir Richard Burton who travelled the world, learning indigenous languages and foreign cultures. We hear about the question of cultural identity and literature.