Shahaduz Zaman, Rohini Chowdhury, Barbara Bogoczek, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Picked up any Polish poetry or Hindi short stories recently?

The West Midlands is the second most ethnically diverse region in the UK.

But what do you know about the literature of the immigrant nations that shape our local communities?

Only around 4% of the total number of books published in this country are translated from another language, and the pool of countries represented in that 4% is relatively small. So opportunities to read literature from other cultures, or to hear from immigrant writers, are limited.

In this event, we meet Bangladeshi writer Shahaduz Zaman; writer and translator Rohini Chowdhury, who works in both Hindi and English; Polish literary translator Barbara Bogoczek and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, an Italian writer of Somali and Pakistani origins.

They will each read from their work and debate how as a region we can encounter more literature from other cultures.

Chaired by Dr Chantal Wright, University of Warwick.