How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English

‘Dutt felt that 1933 Germany was being repeated in 1970s Kolkata, and exactly 50 years later, what he wrote resonates for us again.’

Ramu Ramanathan

· Apr 03, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Arunava Sinha wins Distinguished Translator Award 2022 at Jaipur Literature Festival

Sinha, the co-director of Ashoka Centre of Translation, has translated over 70 books.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 13, 2022 · 04:38 pm

Interview: How we translated Shahidul Zahir’s Bengali fiction transcending national borders

A conversation with V Ramaswamy and Shahroza Nahrin about translating one of the most unique literary voices of Bangladesh.

Harper Broadcast

· Mar 05, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘I sometimes wonder why I translate. It expands something in you’: Translator Sasha Dugdale

An interview on translating from Russian, poetry, and publishing.

Anita Gopalan

· Sep 02, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How to translate Perumal Murugan: Nandini Krishnan on her experience with ‘Estuary’

An interview with the first-time translator, who is an author of two non-fiction books.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Sep 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘I don’t see translation as something done for glory. It’s a very serious business’: Rita Kothari

An interview with translator Rita Kothari on the practice, politics and problems of the art.

Suhasini Patni

· Jul 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech

‘You have to use all your sensitivity to create the same feeling and impact in a completely different language.’

Ipshita Mitra

· Jun 02, 2019 · 08:30 am

Meet Marilyn Booth, translator of the Man Booker International Prize winner ‘Celestial Bodies’

A pre-Man Booker interview with the American academician who translated Omani author Jokha Alharthi’s ‘Sayyidat al-Qamr’ from Arabic.

Marcia Lynx Qualey

· May 23, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How Mahasweta Devi’s historical romance, starring courtesans and thugs, was translated into English

An interview with Shamya Dasgupta, Devi’s nephew and the translator of ‘Mirror Of The Darkest Night’ (‘Laayl-e Aasmaaner Aayna’ in the original).

Jai Arjun Singh

· Apr 06, 2019 · 08:30 am

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

The writer and translator explains how he selected the ghazals for his comprehensive collection, ‘Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi’ and how the form has evolved.

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain

The Morgan Giles interview: ‘I talked about translating the book non-stop for two years till the publisher gave in’

Sana Goyal

· Mar 24, 2019 · 06:30 pm

What we talk about when we talk about translation (and its joys): Views from translators in the UK

A mash-up of conversations with the renowned international translators Ros Schwartz and Daniel Hahn during their visits to the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Mohini Gupta

· Feb 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm