Translation
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‘Gabbilam’: Chinnaiah Jangam’s translation from Telugu wins AK Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation
Scroll Staff
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‘Echoes from the Past’: A richly-detailed insider account of Hyderabad’s royalty and their quirks
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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‘Writers in Kerala are cultural icons’: Editor AJ Thomas on the legacy of the Malayalam short story
Diya Isha
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Fiction: Seetha, an Indian, arrives in Turkey in search of her Kurdish lover Devran
Haritha Savithri Nandakumar K
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International fiction: Keepers of a lighthouse watch in horror as World War II is fought on the sea
Firat Sunel Feyza Howell
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‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry
Salma K Srilata Shobhana Kumar Chandana Dutta
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‘A Bird On My Windowsill’: Actor-writer Manav Kaul’s book is an introspective guide for every artist
Sharmistha Jha
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‘I am not a linear writer. If it’s a 300-page novel, I am not writing it sequentially’: Benyamin
Diya Isha
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In translation: Jayant Kaikini’s new book of short stories is set in Mumbai, India’s Maximum City
Jayant Kaikini Tejaswini Niranjana
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‘Your Utopia’: Bora Chung’s new book of short stories is an explosion for the senses
Ipshita Mitra
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February fiction: Six recently published books to read over four weeks
Sayari Debnath
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Sanskrit-Spanish translator Óscar Pujol wins 2023-24 Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award
Scroll Staff
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‘Essential to ignore political correctness when writing’: French-language writer Shumona Sinha
Sayari Debnath
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Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in translation
Ishrat Afreen Hitesh Gupta Aadil
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Translated fiction: A young man is exiled in Ukraine while the Sri Lankan civil war rages
Appadurai Muttulingam Kavitha Muralidharan
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How the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky overcame his gambling addiction
Stephen Dobson, The Conversation
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‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions
Saloni Sharma
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Emily Wilson’s fluent new translation of the Iliad honours the epic poem’s power and beauty
Chris Mackie, The Conversation
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‘A Woman Burnt’: Imayam’s novel is an incisive observation of an unfair, violent society
Basudhara Roy
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‘War? In this land? / Who told you?’: There’s a new anthology of Sri Lankan poetry in translation
Aazhiyaal Lakshmi Holmström Packiyanathan Ahilan Sascha Ebeling Upekala Bhagyanie Athukorala Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Ruwan Bandujeewa Chamini Kulathunga S Bose Shash Trevett