The
Institut Ramon Llull is the body responsible for projecting the Catalan culture abroad. According to its director,
Àlex Susanna, the work the Institute can do goes further. ‘The Catalan culture is a very effective calling card of Catalonia, of the country’. In 2014, important steps were taken, he explains, above all in the field of translation of Catalan literature, which has been very well received in the Anglo-Saxon market with translations of Catalan works such as ‘Incerta glòria’ and ‘El quadern gris’. But not everything is positive. In this interview Susanna reports the control that Spanish embassies have long exerted over Catalan activity abroad. ‘There is a control which is belligerent in some cases’, he affirms.
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