"I didn’t want to write it in OED English…As I was writing more and more I was aware that I was having it filtered through to me from various languages, various religions, various countries, and so in a sense I wanted to present it from this Western, global perspective, to try and capture something multicultural."
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On the specific English that he chose for his writings in “Daljit Nagra interview: Yoda-speak and Yorkshire voices” in The Telegraph (October 24, 2013)
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Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet of Indian ancestry whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, was published in February 2007.
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