Meet the Translator
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International Booker Prize interview: How Johnny Lorenz translated ‘Crooked Plow’
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International Booker interview: How Sarah Timmer Harvey translated ‘What I’d Rather Not Think About’
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International Booker interview: How Sora Russell and Youngjae Bae translated ‘Mater 2-10’ from Korea
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‘A new imagination of social justice is emerging in modern Malayali fiction’: Translator J Devika
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Interviews: 2022 NIF Translation Fellows Rahul Srawate, NS Gundur, V Ramaswamy and Amlan Biswas
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‘Translators need to employ the craft of fiction writing to do their work well’: Srinath Perur
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‘Translating women writers enables their cultural positions to be represented’: Alo Shome
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‘I find the constraints of the original text liberating to work with’: Translator Rahul Soni
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‘The match between a translator and a writer is alchemical. It’s like being married’: Anton Hur
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‘The quest for the ultimate ‘Mahabharata’ is madness. It is not there’: Translator Wendy Doniger
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‘A challenge of translating from Rajasthani is to keep its orality alive in English’: Vishes Kothari
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‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy
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‘Confining a language to a nationality is narrow-minded’: JCB-Prize-winning translator Baran Farooqi
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
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Kathryn Hansen: ‘Even knowing one South Asian language very well is not enough to translate’
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How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English
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Arunava Sinha wins Distinguished Translator Award 2022 at Jaipur Literature Festival
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Interview: How we translated Shahidul Zahir’s Bengali fiction transcending national borders
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‘I sometimes wonder why I translate. It expands something in you’: Translator Sasha Dugdale
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How to translate Perumal Murugan: Nandini Krishnan on her experience with ‘Estuary’
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‘I don’t see translation as something done for glory. It’s a very serious business’: Rita Kothari
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The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech
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Meet Marilyn Booth, translator of the Man Booker International Prize winner ‘Celestial Bodies’
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How Mahasweta Devi’s historical romance, starring courtesans and thugs, was translated into English
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How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman
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Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain
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What we talk about when we talk about translation (and its joys): Views from translators in the UK
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‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman
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Only a fraction of worthy modern Tamil books have been translated, says N Kalyan Raman
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‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English
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Meet Shahnaz Habib, whose debut translation has won the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature
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From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation
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How translator Jennifer Croft won £26,000 and the Man Booker International Prize
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From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey
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Meet the American who translates some of India’s finest Hindi writers into English
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The function of the Gita is to reformat the human mind like a hard drive, says its latest translator
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What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk
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Gregory Rabassa’s magical realism: ‘How does it sound? Translating by ear. It’s like music’
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I don’t become the writer, I inhabit the writer’s words: Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator
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What’s Marathi for Orc? Translating ‘Lord Of The Rings’