‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Love for a language in translation will always have its imperfect bits, but also a delightful ambiguity.

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Mirza Athar Baig’s ‘Hassan’s State of Affairs’ underlines the art and challenges of translation

The original Urdu novel was recently translated by Shahbaz Haider.

Irfan Aslam, Dawn.com

· Apr 25, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Why read translations? Or, why there is no borderless literature and why that is not bad at all

The full text of the keynote address at the 7th edition of the Jaipur BookMark Festival delivered by Berthold Franke.

Berthold Franke

· Feb 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

Rimi, the translator of a new edition of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali novel into English, explains what she set out to achieve.

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘I resisted reading translation theory before I translated’: A journey from reading to translating

‘A Handful of Sesame’, Maithreyi Karnoor’s translation of the Kannada novel ‘Halla Bantu Halla’, has been shortlisted for The Lucien Stryk Asian Prize.

Maithreyi Karnoor

· Oct 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

Found in translation: How 57 different languages have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’

On International Translation Day, celebrating the linguists whose cultural reinventions have helped keep the passion and intimacy of the 1847 novel alive.

Matthew Reynolds, The Conversation

· Sep 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam is one of the most controversial translations ever

Edward FitzGerald’s translations of Khayyam’s verses as Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam not only transcreated Khayyam’s poetry, but also his identity.

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Jun 22, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Asterix in Hindi: How do you translate a universal cultural memory?

Puneet Gupta and Dipa Chaudhuri have translated four Asterix comic albums into Hindi, with more to come.

Mohini Gupta

· Apr 27, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation

Written by Javed Siddiqui and translated by Fatima Rizvi, this ‘pen portrait’ depicts the fate of a family in the face of dwindling wealth.

Javed Siddiqui

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Fatima Rizvi

· Apr 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?

The Bible is not just a religious text, it is also highly literary.

Robert Alter, Aeon

· Mar 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language

Translator Ajmal Kamal explains the intrepid, impromptu and improbable impulse behind the work.

Ajmal Kamal

· Mar 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Of borders and tongues: A writer’s lifelong journey of losing and finding his mother language

Mahmud Rahman grew up in Dhaka and moved to the United States as an adult but his relationship with Bangla was shaped by much more than the crossing of borders.

Mahmud Rahman

· Feb 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm