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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia
Episode: Translating Mafalda
Description: This week, Emily Hart speaks to multi-award-winning translator Frank Wynne about Latin America's most beloved cartoon - Mafalda - and how he brought her to life in English.  Dubbed 'a hero of our time' by Italian philosopher Umberto Eco and 'Charlie Brown with Socialism' by the New York Times, Mafalda is a precocious six-year-old girl living in 1960s Argentina - full of questions and observations about the world and the adults who surround her. She loves democracy; she hates soup and yoyos.  Though often lighthearted and sprinkled with slapstick and wordplay, her...