In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews the Dutch-Uruguayan poet Maxime Garcia Diaz. They discuss her relationship with different languages and how they impact her creative process and the question of identity. The conversation also covers her life in the United States, the experience of having her work translated into Spanish in Argentina, the future of the printed book and fragmentation in modern culture.

Have a listen to the conversation and check out Maxime Garcia Diaz’s works, the multilingual collection “Het is warm in de hivemind” (2021) and her latest book, “The network must be built/ Het netwerk moet gebouwd worden” (2025), which is available in both Dutch and English.

The episode transcript can be accessed here.

This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective.

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This episode was produced and edited by Séamus O’Kane.

Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over.

Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili, Evangeline Scarpulla, and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.