Translation
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A boy kills a family foe and is on the run with his father in this novel set in rural Tamil Nadu
Poomani
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These two collections of Telugu stories depict women being battered daily. Do they work as fiction?
Sayali Palekar
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Fafnir’s heart: A legend from Norse mythology inspires an anthology of poetry from across the world
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya
Joginder Paul
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar
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This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home
Niyati Bafna
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How Intizar Husain’s Partition trilogy gently probed the wounds of the tragedy
Rakhshanda Jalil
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A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘An Incident from 1919’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s haunting short story on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers
Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation
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‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation
Javed Siddiqui Fatima Rizvi
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How Mahasweta Devi’s historical romance, starring courtesans and thugs, was translated into English
Jai Arjun Singh
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This Sanskrit epic, derived from a Persian work, brings together figures from many religions
AND Haksar
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Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain
Sana Goyal
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Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This highly dramatic Thai novel is a meditation on sorrow and loneliness (because it is about love)
Suhasini Patni
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Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?
Robert Alter, Aeon
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Do literary translations need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been doing just that
Mohini Gupta
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How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language
Ajmal Kamal
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Of borders and tongues: A writer’s lifelong journey of losing and finding his mother language
Mahmud Rahman