SALT: South Asian Literature in Translation @SALTatChicago
SALT is a multi-year project based at @UChicago to support and promote South Asian Literature in English Translation salt.humanities.uchicago.edu Joined March 2023-
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!!! A novel from the point of view of a young Tamil woman growing up in Jaffna in the 1980s! And it's is on the Women's Prize shortlist, among books and authors I deeply admire. Grateful for this recognition.
!!! A novel from the point of view of a young Tamil woman growing up in Jaffna in the 1980s! And it's is on the Women's Prize shortlist, among books and authors I deeply admire. Grateful for this recognition.
I’m so excited to finally see my translation of Hijab Imtiaz Ali’s story “Oh, Fangèd Night” (Shab-guzida) in @samovarmag, the translation arm of @strangehorizons 🌒. I just love Hijab’s playfully tongue in cheek horror, and I hope you do too 🧿.
I’m so excited to finally see my translation of Hijab Imtiaz Ali’s story “Oh, Fangèd Night” (Shab-guzida) in @samovarmag, the translation arm of @strangehorizons 🌒. I just love Hijab’s playfully tongue in cheek horror, and I hope you do too 🧿.
We are also partnering with @englishpen on a new round of its PEN Presents programme, which supports emerging translators. The International Booker Prize X PEN Presents programme will have a specific focus on translators from the Global Majority. thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/p…
Thrilled to be working with @TheBookerPrizes for this #PENPresents round for translators from the Global Majority. Outstanding writing, outstanding translation, more of it, greater representation, better financial conditions.
Thrilled to be working with @TheBookerPrizes for this #PENPresents round for translators from the Global Majority. Outstanding writing, outstanding translation, more of it, greater representation, better financial conditions.
Applications for this year's prize are now closed! While we wait to learn who made the shortlist, we asked last year's finalists: How did they first become interested in being a translator?
Two poems by the one and only Binoy Majumdar in my translation on @wwborders today. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…
👀 !!! Excited and grateful to see Brotherless Night here.
👀 !!! Excited and grateful to see Brotherless Night here.
Just a few days remain before the final extended deadline for submissions! Your last chance to be considered for the 2024 Armory Square prize is April 8, 2024.
Two of my books finally got their US visas approved! 😻 thank you, @kan_writersside!
Two of my books finally got their US visas approved! 😻 thank you, @kan_writersside!
This wonderful thing happened a year ago and I'm extremely grateful for it. Thank you @ArmorySqPrize , @shreedaisy & @J_Zuckerman This year the deadline to submit has been extended till 8th April. Apply now, maybe you'll get lucky too. 😊
This wonderful thing happened a year ago and I'm extremely grateful for it. Thank you @ArmorySqPrize , @shreedaisy & @J_Zuckerman This year the deadline to submit has been extended till 8th April. Apply now, maybe you'll get lucky too. 😊
We asked last year's finalists: How do they get ready to start on a new translation project? With thanks to @sharmavaibhav__ , @AruniKashyap, and @microMAF
While we wait to see who will make this year's shortlist, meet last year's winner, Musharraf Ali Farooqi (@microMAF)! His translation of Siddique Alam’s The Kettledrum and Other Stories will be published soon by @openletterbooks. There's still time to apply for the 2024 prize!
We're also delighted to add a new strand of #PENTranslates funding with @SALTatChicago. Open to publishers anywhere outside South Asia publishing new English translations of any work of South Asian literature, PEN Translates x SALT strand will run biannually for the next 4 years.
🚨Deadline has been extended!🚨 There is one more week to submit applications for the 2024 Armory Square Prize - we'll be accepting submissions through April 8.
Spread the word! There are only 10 days left to apply for this year's Armory Square Prize. The winning translator of a work by a South Asian woman author will have their book published by @open_letter. See all details and apply here: armorysv.com/translation-pr…
Meet the 2024 Armory Square Prize Jury: @sawadhussain We're so happy to have Sawad join us this year! She is a brilliant translator and colleague - learn more about her work here: instagram.com/p/C4ssNwmOomT/
This book joins its illustrious cousins today, 28 March, in UK bookstores @PenguinUKBooks. UK friends, please send photos if you spot it?
Meet the 2024 Armory Square Prize Jury: @pia_sawhney! Pia has been Partner and Cofounder of Armory Square Ventures since 2014. Prior to that, she served as a documentary filmmaker. Learn more about her work here: instagram.com/p/C4qIvLVu7k9/
📚✒️ Exciting news! @ArmorySV is accepting submissions for The Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. Open to unpublished book-length works by South Asian women in languages other than English. Deadline: 1 April 2024 Learn more: commonwealthfoundation.com/opportunity/ar…
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Hey Chicago, what do you say? Deep Vellum crew is coming your way! We’re taking a little field trip to hang out with @lilyjmeyer and to meet up with the amazing booksellers of the Windy City. Come out and say hi!
Applications for this year's prize are now closed! While we wait to learn who made the shortlist, we asked last year's finalists: How did they first become interested in being a translator?
A year ago the @turkoslaviaco founders and I first envisioned this mini-anthology of women-centered works from Croatia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan. It is finally appearing!
Introducing… NEPAL by Marina Gudelj tr. from Croatian @enaselimo! The first installment of the @wwborders feature SINS OF THE MOTHER presented by @turkoslaviaco🧿 wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…
Very excellent interview with @KevinGerryDunn. Simultaneously oh so silly yet v. eloquent. Can’t wait to read his translation of @evilarmadruga ‘The Tyranny of Flies’ as well as his inflammatory and offensive translator’s note, ofc. @CATranslation 🪰🪰🪰 catranslation.org/blog-post/excl…
Two poems by the one and only Binoy Majumdar in my translation on @wwborders today. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…
👀 !!! Excited and grateful to see Brotherless Night here.
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is happy to reveal and celebrate its second annual Shortlist of five fiction writers from Canada and the United States: Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Kim Coleman Foote, V. V. Ganeshananthan, and Janika Oza. Learn more: bit.ly/3UddL0Q
Hear Baqytgul Sarmekova read an excerpt from “In Search of a Character”, a story taken from her collection TO HELL WITH POETS, translated by Mirgul Kali. This is first English-language collection from the rising star of a new generation of Kazakh writers.
Okay. We ditched our Niagara plans and drove to upstate NY yesterday because the forecast said the sky would be clear there, but today the forecast says the sky will be cloudy there and clear in Quebec. So we’re off to Quebec. 🤞🏼
“I prefer to write in bed. Under duress, I will write on the sofa, but then I require the presence of my dog.”
Brotherless Night by @V_V_G longlisted for the 2024 #WomensPrize for fiction tells the story of Sashi who wants to be a doctor, but as civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path Find out what V.V. said when we sat down with her: bit.ly/3IVZzCJ
Just a few days remain before the final extended deadline for submissions! Your last chance to be considered for the 2024 Armory Square prize is April 8, 2024.
Two of my books finally got their US visas approved! 😻 thank you, @kan_writersside!
Woo x 2, @shreedaisy !! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉🎉🎉 #xl8
This wonderful thing happened a year ago and I'm extremely grateful for it. Thank you @ArmorySqPrize , @shreedaisy & @J_Zuckerman This year the deadline to submit has been extended till 8th April. Apply now, maybe you'll get lucky too. 😊
FINALIST Amit Dutta (Hindi): This Village Doesn’t Exist translated by Vaibhav Sharma (novel) cc @J_Zuckerman @sharmavaibhav__
Over in Australia, Sanya Rushdi's 'Hospital' is on the shortlist of @TheStellaPrize! Published by @GiramondoBooks there, and by @seagullbooks in India, the UK, and the USA. stella.org.au/announcing-the…
We asked last year's finalists: How do they get ready to start on a new translation project? With thanks to @sharmavaibhav__ , @AruniKashyap, and @microMAF
While we wait to see who will make this year's shortlist, meet last year's winner, Musharraf Ali Farooqi (@microMAF)! His translation of Siddique Alam’s The Kettledrum and Other Stories will be published soon by @openletterbooks. There's still time to apply for the 2024 prize!
We're also delighted to add a new strand of #PENTranslates funding with @SALTatChicago. Open to publishers anywhere outside South Asia publishing new English translations of any work of South Asian literature, PEN Translates x SALT strand will run biannually for the next 4 years.
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This book joins its illustrious cousins today, 28 March, in UK bookstores @PenguinUKBooks. UK friends, please send photos if you spot it?
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