‘Auspicious and intimidating in equal measure’: Translating Benyamin’s twin novels as a first-timer

Shahnaz Habib writes about rendering Malayalam writer Benyamin’s words into English and the exhilaration of tackling a translation within a translation.

Shahnaz Habib

· Jul 22, 2018 · 12:30 pm

What makes a translation great? Ten literary translators from across the world weigh in

Editor and translator Katy Derbyshire poses the question to ten practitioners and stresses why we need to be talking about it.

Katy Derbyshire

· Apr 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Translation rights that which is wrong. It describes the injustices hidden in the dailyness’

‘Writing Wrong: Translating Lives’: Naveen Kishore of Seagull Books delivered the keynote address at the Jaipur Book Mark.

Naveen Kishore

· Jan 31, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Eight things we learnt about translation on International Translation Day

It’s not just about taking books from one language into another.

Mohini Gupta

· Oct 10, 2017 · 08:30 am

We translated the Marquis de Sade’s most obscene work. Here’s what we learnt about vulgarities

The Marquis de Sade’s earliest work of fiction, 'The 120 Days of Sodom', is also his most extreme.

Will McMorran, The Conversation

· Nov 06, 2016 · 06:00 am

Read: Premchand's classic short story, The Shroud

On the writer's 136th birth anniversary, here is Kafan, translated from the Urdu and Hindi by Frances W. Pritchett.

Premchand

· Jul 31, 2016 · 04:46 pm

Anatomy of a translation: cracking the music, the slang, the word-play

Roland Glasser’s translation of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s French novel 'Tram 83' has just been published in India.

Roland Glasser

· May 01, 2016 · 04:30 pm

Word for word: the translator’s temptations and the pleasure of sinning

Preserving the language, spirit and storyline is a tall order – sometimes, straying is recommended.

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

· Jul 20, 2015 · 08:30 am