Packaging Leila Slimani’s ‘The Perfect Nanny’

Writing a book is one thing. To get it published it quite another song. What about the next step of translation and publishing in a different language and culture? Do you have to change the title of your book, not just a translation, but a completely different title? And what about the cover? What kind of cover to your new readers in an other language. 

In this article is closer look is taken at the novel written by Leila Slimani. It was written in French and translated into English. But how to package this whole process to make the book look like a nice present? 54289958203__6A499411-D83B-4665-AAFF-7296E39C2B2B

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I enjoy reading about Africa. New books. Old books. By African writers. By non-African writers. Novel. History. Travel. Biographies. Autobiographies. Politics. Colonialism. Poetry.

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