Maya Angelou’s translator Santiago Artozqui on working with her unique poetry

The translator who has translated into French the latest collection of poems by the late US civil rights icon Maya Angelou has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the pressure of getting it right. Santiago Artozqui has just finished translating her collection entitled “I shall not be moved” in English and “Rien ne me fera plier” in French. He told us that Angelou “had a voice, had something to say and knew how to say it”. He spoke to us in Perspective.