White translator of Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem quits amid race row

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Dutch poet Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has pulled out of translating a poem by African-American author Amanda Gorman, following criticism that a black translator wasn’t picked for the job.

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Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.

In 2021, Gorman read “The Hill We Climb” at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden.

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