Opening Panel: The Rise of the Reader - a podcast by Free Word

The digital age has empowered readers like never before. No longer passive recipients of a finished end product, many readers are now playing an active role in the selection, commissioning - even
the editing - of translated books into English. Publishers are working harder to create engaged and vibrant reading communities, and readers’ groups are offering their own verdicts on prize lists. Anna Jean Hughes, Founder and Editorial Director at The Pigeonhole; Will Rycroft, Community Manager at Vintage; and Gaby Wood, Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, examined this changing power dynamic and the shifting role of the reader, and asked how it is affecting translated literature in the UK. The panel was chaired by journalist and broadcaster Alex Clark.

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