Translator Episodes

Guest for this Episode is KE Semmel. KE Semmel spoke to us about his life in Literature and his debut novel ' The Book of Losman'.

He is a writer and a translatorfrom Danish to English. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lithub, The Millions, Electric Literature, The Writer’s Chronicle, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

The Book of Losman (SFWP) is his debut novel.

"Daniel Losman, an American translator living a solitary life in Copenhagen, grapples with loneliness after his girlfriend...

Welcome to Harshaneeyam In this episode Damion Searls talked about his new book ‘The philosophy of translation. For any one who is interested in the creative process of translation , this is the book that you should pickup and read. There is a link provided in the show notes to buy the book.

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Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated about sixty books, including ten by this year's Nobel Priz...

In this Episode , Ross Benjamin spoke about his translation of Kafka's Diaries.

Ross Benjamin is a translator of German-language literature living in Nyack, New York. His translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, , Joseph Roth’s Job, Thomas Pletzinger’s Funeral for a Dog, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. His translation of Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker International Prize. He was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, National Endowment fo...

In this episode, renowned Czech Translator, Alex Zucker spoke about his translated work , the novel - ' Life After Kafka'. The novel was originally written in Czech. Alex Spoke about the book, writer Magdalena, and about bringing the voice of characters into the English translation. Currently he is on a book tour with the author in the USA. There is a link provided in the show notes giving the details of the book Tour.

Alex Zucker is a renowned translator of Czech literature into English. He ha...

Alistair Ian Blyth was born in Sunderland, England, and attended the universities of Cambridge and Durham, where he studied English and Latin. He has lived in Romania since 1999. He has translated numerous works of fiction and non-fiction from the Romanian, including works by many of the leading novelists writing in Romania and Moldova today. He is also the author of a novel, Card Catalogue, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2021.

In this episode, He spoke about Romanian Literary scene, His ...

'అమ్మవారి పాదం' కథ నెమ్మినీలం పుస్తకం లోనించి . సుప్రసిద్ధ తమిళ రచయిత జయమోహన్ అరం కథల సంపుటం లోనిది ,.తెలుగు లోకి అవినేని భాస్కర్ ఈ కథలను 'నెమ్మి నీలం' పేరిట అనువదించారు .

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Mark Harman is an Irish-born, US-resident academic described as “the finest living Kafka translator” into English. Harman studied at University College Dublin and Yale University, where he took his BA/MA and PhD, respectively. He has taught German and Irish literature at Dartmouth, Oberlin, Franklin & Marshall, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor and co-translator of Robert Walser and translator of Hermann Hesse, Soul of the Age.

Harshaneeyam invited him to speak about his new book...

ఈ రోజు హర్షణీయంలో మన అతిధి - తమిళ తెలుగు అనువాదకులు అవినేని భాస్కర్ . గత వారం బెంగుళూరులో జరిగిన బుక్ బ్రహ్మ ఫెస్టివల్‍లో భాస్కర్ తమిళం నించి తెలుగులోకి అనువదించిన 'నెమ్మి నీలం ' కథల పుస్తకం ఛాయా పబ్లికేషన్స్ ద్వారా విడుదల అయ్యింది . తమిళంలో ఈ కథలను రాసింది సుప్రసిద్ధ తమిళ రచయిత జయమోహన్ . ఈ పుస్తకం తమిళంలో గత పది సంవత్సరాలలో అనేక పునర్ముద్రణలకు నోచుకొని పాఠకుల విశేష ఆదరణకు నోచుకుంది. ఈ సంభాషణలో భాగంగా భాస్కర్ 'నెమ్మి నీలం' పాఠకుడిగా, అనువాదకుడిగా తన అనుభవాల గురించి, తనకిష్టమైన సాహిత్యం గురించి, ...

Guest For this Episode is Harsha Raghuram from Vienna, Austria. He is a PhD scholar at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and his area of Research is Material Science.
He was born and raised in Bengaluru, India, and has a keen interest in languages and linguistics. He can speak over six languages in addition to his mother tongue Kannada. He is trained in Karnatic Classical Music and performs regularly on various prestigious forums. He has translated Caroline Wahl's best-selling debut no...

The guest for this Episode is Vineet Gill. He spoke about his pursuit of literature, the Hindi Writer Nirmal Verma, and the State of Literary Translations in India.

A well-known name in Hindi literature, Nirmal Verma is known mainly for his fictional works. Born on April 3, 1929, he obtained an M.A. in history from Delhi University. He studied Czech at the Oriental Institute in Prague and has been a Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies. Nirmal Verma is a recipient of India's ...

Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation-state of their own. The Kurds live in a geo-political area called "Kurdistan", the land of the Kurds, which straddles four different countries in today's Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.

Today’s Guest is Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem Abdulrahman is a translator and Kurdish affairs analyst. From 2006 to 2014, he worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC, where translation was part of his job. In 2013, he wa...

Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world translating many of his books and writing his biography. She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Yoko Tawada. Her prizes for translation include the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2017 she won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation f...

The guest for this Episode is Carolin Duttlinger. She spoke about Kafka's allure, Kafka as a reader and Kafka Oxford Research Center.

Carolin Duttlinger a Professor and tutor in German at Wadham College, Oxford. She teaches German literature, film and culture from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as translation. A particular focus of Carolin’s research is the writer Franz Kafka.

She is co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, which hosts conferences, and workshops and wor...

Today We have Benjamin Balint with us speaking about his book 'Kafka's Last Trail'.

Kafka’s Last Trial begins with Kafka’s last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius—even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destructio...

The Guest for this Episode is Michelle Woods. She spoke about Analyzing translations, the 'Objective subjectivity' of translators, and different translations of Kafka over the years, and how each of these provided us with great insights into Kafka's work.

Michelle Woods is a Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the authoer of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka (2014), Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation (2012), and...

Kafka's Biography written in three parts in German by Reiner Stach is considered as one of the best Biographies published ever. Renowned translator Shelley Frisch rendered it into English with great dexterity and dedication. In this episode, she spoke about her affinity towards the translation of Biographies, Kafka's Allure, Challenges in translating Non-Fiction and how she handled this 3-part 1800-page work.

Shelley Frisch taught German literature at Bucknell University, Columbia University, a...

In this episode, Christopher Moseley talked about the state of the Estonian Language, Translations, his work on Minority and Endangered Languages and his Translation 'The Man Who Spoke Snakish' a Beautiful moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity written by Famous Estonian Author Andrus Kivirähk.

Christopher Moseley has been the General Editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger since 2008 and is now a member of the edito...

Today, we have Chad Post gracing Harshaneeyam.

Chad W. Post is a powerhouse for promoting international literature. He leads Open Letter Books, publishing global voices. He is the managing editor of Three Percent, a blog and review site promoting literature in translation. He is home to the Translation Database (now housed at Publishers Weekly), the Best Translated Book Awards, and the Three Percent and Two Month Review podcasts. He is also the author of The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Res...

Today, We have Rawley Grau with us.

Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including novels by Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriela Babnik, Vlado Žabot, and Sebastijan Pregelj. Five of his translations were longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He has also translated Ivan Cankar’s play Depravity in St. Florian Valley, as well as poe...

Today, we are privileged to host Ellen Elias-Bursac, an American Scholar and senior translator who has dedicated her career to the study and translation of South Slavic Languages. As the past president of the American Literary Translators Association ( ALTA), she has been a driving force in promoting Literary Translation. In this conversation, she shared her fascinating journey into Literature, her significant work in ICTY and ALTA, her translations of Dialect, and her translations of Serbian Au...

Our Guest for Today is Will Firth. Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. He lives in Berlin and works as a translator of literature and the humanities (from Russian, Macedonian and all variants of Serbo-Croatian, aka “BCMS”). His best-received translations of recent years have been Faruk Šehić’s 'Quiet Flows the Una' and Andrej Nikolaidis’s Anomaly. He spoke about his entry into Translations, Life in Germany a...

Our guest for this episode is Amaia Gabantxo. She spoke about Basque Language, Literature and Translations.

Amaia is a writer, singer, and literary translator who specialises in Basque literature. She is the most prolific translator of Basque literature to date, as well as a pioneer in the field, and has received multiple awards for her work; among them, a Wingate Scholarship, the OMI Writers Translation Lab award, a Mellon Fellowship for Arts and Scholarship, and an artist-in-residence award a...

Our Guest for today, Hanna Komar, is an accomplished Belarusian poet and writer who has translated her work into English.

She holds an MA in Creative Writing: Writing the City from the University of Westminster and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Brighton. Her research focuses on how poetry can empower Belarusian women to share their experiences of gender-based violence and patriarchy.

Hanna’s poetic work is a powerful testament to the experiences of girls and young women in a patriarch...

Our guest for this Episode is the renowned Russian Translator Robert Chandler. He delves into the world of the celebrated Russian Writer Teffi, discussing his translation of the recently released short story compilation 'The Time was no More and Essential Stories and Memories' penned by Teffi.

Robert first began learning Russian when he was 15. At 20, he spent a year as a British Council Exchange scholar in Voronezh, the city where Andrey Platonov was born and where Osip Mandelstam was exiled. ...