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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's often said that you can tell\Na lot about a person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the looking at what's \Non their bookshelves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do my bookshelves\Nsay about me?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, when I asked myself\Nthis question a few years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made an alarming discovery.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd always thought of myself\Nas a fairly, cultured, cosmopolitan
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my bookshelves told \Na rather different story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty much all the titles on them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were by British of North American authors,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was almost nothing\Nin translation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Discovering this massive, \Ncultural blind spot\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came as quite a shock.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I thought about it,\Nit seemed like a real shame.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew there had to be\Nlots of amazing stories out there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by writers working in languages\Nother than English.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it seemed really sad to think\Nthat my reading habits
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant that I would probably\Nnever encounter them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I decided to prescribe myself\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an intensive course in global reading.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2012 was set to be a very \Ninternational year for the UK,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the year of the London Olympics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I decided to use it\Nas my timeframe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to read a novel, \Nshort story collection,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or memoir from every country\Nin the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I did,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was very exciting\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I learned some remarkable things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made some wonderful connections\Nthat I want to share with you today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it started with some \Npractical problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I worked out which of the many\Ndifferent lists of countries in the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use for my project,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ended up going with the list\Nof UN-recognized nations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to which I added Taiwan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which gave me a total of 196 countries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after I'd worked out\Nhow to fit reading and blogging
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about, roughly, four books a week
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around working five days a week,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I then had to face up to the fact\Nthat I might not be able
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get books in English \Nfrom every country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only around 4.5 percent\Nof the literary works
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,published each year in the UK\Nare translations,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the figures are similar \Nfor much of the English-speaking world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although, the proportion\Nof translated books
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,published in other countries \Nis a lot higher.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4.5 percent is tiny enough\Nto start with,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what that figure doesn't tell you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that many of those books
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will come from countries\Nwith strong publishing networks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lots of industry professionals\Ntrying to go out and sell those titles
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to English-language publishers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for example,