"A translation dilemma is among my earliest memories. I was five [...]. Revisiting that dilemma now in 2021, it occurs to me that it has as much to do with the act of writing as it does with translation. In other words, as soon as I learned how to write in English [...] I simultaneously intuited the central and complex role that translation was to play.”

Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others