Pop star, bookworm, and host of the Service95 Book Club podcast Dua Lipa opens the 10th Anniversary International Booker Prize awards event with a speech about translated literature and its impact on her outlook and reading habits:

There really isn’t anything quite like a book to understand the perspective of others, and translated fiction takes that even further.

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Each year, the Booker Prize Foundation provides free Booker-nominated books to UK prisons and young-offender institutions.

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I’ll never forget what one of the women shared with the group, that perhaps if she’d read more books when she was younger, maybe she wouldn’t be here now.

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What a joy it is to read. What a joy to read the world.

 
Nice words. Let us now bookend this moment of joyous reading with music, animated anime references, and DaBaby:
 

 
. . . and the Booker Prize winning book (of course 🤦‍♀️): Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Taiwanese Mandarin by Lin King