Karen Leeder interviewed by Pádraig Ó Tuama

✨ Save the date! Next week, Karen Leeder, our 2025 #GriffinPoetryPrize-winning translator, will be in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama.

📺 Watch the live premiere of this exclusive interview on Wednesday, July 30, at 12:00 PM ET on our YouTube channel.

🎙️ Karen Leeder is a writer, scholar, and translator of contemporary German literature. She has received many accolades for her translations, including the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for Durs Grünbein's 𝙋𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜, the Stephen Spender Prize, the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation, and two Schlegel-Tieck Prizes. Leeder is the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

🎙️ Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of On Being’s 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙐𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 and has published volumes of poetry, essays, a memoir and theology. This year has seen the publication of 𝙆𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙃𝙮𝙢𝙣𝙨, a volume of original poems, and the anthology 44 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙀𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧; 𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙐𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. He lives in Belfast and New York City.

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Production: MEGAFAUNA
Sound Recording, Edit, and Mix by Gavin Whelehan for MEGAFAUNA Sound
Director of Photography: Thom Varey
Filmed on location at Revolution Recording, Toronto & Digital Island Studios, New York City

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