Found in translation
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Writer Sharanya Manivannan on her picture book being translated into Tamil, her mother tongue
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Emily Wilson’s fluent new translation of the Iliad honours the epic poem’s power and beauty
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This reader compiled a list of 117 Indian books in English translation published in 2023
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The art of translating Tamil: Being graceful in English while staying ‘true’ to the source language
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‘Feeling Kerala’: These Malayalam stories curated-translated by J Devika redefine literary Kerala
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Embarking on the divine: On translating the Urdu poet Jaun Elia
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‘Kural’ versus ‘Kural’: The aesthetics and politics of two translations of Tiruvalluvar’s classic
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A reader compiled this thread of 91 books from India translated into English and published in 2022
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‘My Dear Teacher’: The winning piece of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation 2022
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Nandana Dev Sen on how she translated her mother Nabaneeta’s poetry – in life and after her death
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‘Dancing backwards and in heels’: The delicate art of translating children’s literature
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International Translation Day: What is the social role of translation in contemporary India?
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Discover the world (and India) through 20 books written and translated by women
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‘Authors are great, translators are not’: Shanta Gokhale on being a translator
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‘It’s a cultural encyclopaedia of modern India’: Annie Montaut, French translator of ‘Ret Samadhi’
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NIF Translation Fellowship: The first three winners are translators from Bangla, Kannada and Marathi
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‘Parasite’: Read the story that co-won the Jawad Memorial Prize 2021 for Urdu-to-English translation
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
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What a close reading of N Kalyan Raman’s translation of Ci Su Chellappa’s ‘Vaadivaasal’ reveals
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Why the New India Foundation is offering fellowships to translate non-fiction books into English
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How translators achieve harmony, and why this is not a threat to the writers they translate
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Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’
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The translation debate: ‘No, translators do not alter the original story or distort its intention’
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To pierce a mustard seed and let in seven oceans: Ambai on the art of translation
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Missed opportunity: What the debate about Amanda Gorman’s translators is really about
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Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations
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‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu
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Mirza Athar Baig’s ‘Hassan’s State of Affairs’ underlines the art and challenges of translation
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Why read translations? Or, why there is no borderless literature and why that is not bad at all
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‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges
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‘I resisted reading translation theory before I translated’: A journey from reading to translating
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Found in translation: How 57 different languages have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’
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Why Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam is one of the most controversial translations ever
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Asterix in Hindi: How do you translate a universal cultural memory?
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‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation
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Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?
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How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language
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Of borders and tongues: A writer’s lifelong journey of losing and finding his mother language
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Translating Asterix jokes and puns: The genius of Anthea Bell (and Derek Hockridge)
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‘Auspicious and intimidating in equal measure’: Translating Benyamin’s twin novels as a first-timer
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What makes a translation great? Ten literary translators from across the world weigh in
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‘Translation rights that which is wrong. It describes the injustices hidden in the dailyness’
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Eight things we learnt about translation on International Translation Day
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We translated the Marquis de Sade’s most obscene work. Here’s what we learnt about vulgarities
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Read: Premchand's classic short story, The Shroud
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Anatomy of a translation: cracking the music, the slang, the word-play
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Word for word: the translator’s temptations and the pleasure of sinning