Three Percent Podcast #209: Arunava Sinha on South Asian Literature in Translation
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Arunava Sinha discusses his career in translation and the South Asian literary scene.
Arunava Sinha—professor, journalist, translator of over 100 works, including The Laboratory by Rabindranath Tagore—discusses his new venture, Chowringhee Press , his career in translation, the literary scene in India writ large, and provides a list of books to check out if you’re looking for entryways into South Asia’s diverse literary scene (see below). Books published by Chowringhee Press: I Murdered Mine , Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, translated from the Hindi by Sakshi Agarwal Premchand X Ray + Sen , Munshi Premchand aka Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, translated from the Hindi by Sayari Debnath Writing Death—Ego: A Novel , Rajalekshmi, translated from the Malayalam by Dhiya Sony The Laboratory , Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha Finalists for the JCB Prize for Literature: Jasmine Days , Benyamin, translated from the Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib The One Legged , Sakyajit Bhattacharya, translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee Imaan , Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha The Nemesis , Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy There’s Gunpowder in the Air , Manoranjan Byapari, translated from the…
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