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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...

మధురాంతకం నరేంద్ర గారు తన రచనా వ్యాసంగాన్ని నలభై ఆరేళ్ళ క్రితం ప్రారంభించారు. వారిది సాహిత్య కుటుంబం. వారి తండ్రి గారు మధురాంతకం రాజారామ్ గారు , సోదరుడు మహేంద్ర గారు కూడా సుప్రసిద్ధ తెలుగు కథా రచయితలు.

వృత్తిరీత్యా ఆంగ్ల అధ్యాపకులు.

మన సమాజంలో, మన వ్యక్తిత్వాలలో వుండే వైచిత్రిని , అనేక రకాలైన సంఘర్షణలని అతి సుతారమైన తనదైన శైలిలో , అత్యంత సహజంగా చిత్రీకరించడమే ఆయన రచనలలో వుండే ప్రత్యేకత.

ఒక సకారాకాత్మకమైన మార్పు , కథ చదివే ప్రతి వ్యక్తిలో, తద్వారా మన సమాజంలో తీసుక రావాలని ఆశించే రచయిత.

అత్యంత...

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...

In this Episode, Harshaneeyam Speaks to Writer Jeyamohan on the eve of his 'Aram' Stories getting translated into Telugu. The book is titled ‘Nemmi Neelam’ and translated by Bhaskar Avineni. Chaaya Resources is the Publisher.

Bhaskar Avineni is an acclaimed translator from Tamil to Telugu and it is his second Publication. Aram Stories were translated into English as ‘Stories of the True’ by Priyamvada Ramkumar shortlisted for the ALTA Prize in 2023.

Writer Jeyamohan is highly regarded as one o...

ఈ ఎపిసోడ్లో 2024 వ సంవత్సరానికి ఆటా (అమెరికన్ తెలుగు అసోసియేషన్) బహుమతి పొందిన "చెదరిన పాదముద్రలు" నవలపై రచయిత ఉణుదుర్తి సుధాకర్ గారితో ఏ కే ప్రభాకర్ గారి సంభాషణ మీరు వింటారు.

రచయిత ఉణుదుర్తి సుధాకర్ గారి స్వస్థలం విశాఖపట్నం. సాహిత్య అభిలాషకు కారణం కుటుంబ వాతావరణం. స్కూలు చదువు శ్రీకాకుళం. ఉన్నత విద్య యూరోప్లో. వృత్తి రీత్యా మెరైన్ ఇంజనీర్. వీరి మొదటి నవల 'యారాడకొండ' కూడా ఆటా బహుమతిని పొందింది. తూరుపు గాలులు, చలిచీమల కవాతు వీరి కథాసంపుటాలు. వీరి కథల ఇంగ్లీష్ అనువాదం 'ఈస్ట్ విండ్' క్రిందటి ఏడాది...

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...

కవి, రచయిత, అనువాదకులు శ్రీనివాస గౌడ్ చీరాలలో జన్మించారు. ప్రస్తుతం హైదరాబాద్ లో నివాసం. నిఇప్పటిదాకా ఎనిమిది కవితా సంపుటాలు, ఒక అనువాదం, ఈ మధ్యనే 'మార్జినోళ్ళు' అనే కథల పుస్తకం తీసుకవచ్చారు. వీరి సంపాదకత్వంలో ప్రకాశం జిల్లా రచయితలు రాసిన కథలతో 'కథాప్రకాశం' అనే సంపుటం వెలువడింది. తన రచనలకు ఫ్రీవర్స్ ఫ్రంట్, గిడుగు కవితా పురస్కారం, ఇంకా అనేక అవార్డులను గెలుచుకున్నారు. ప్రత్యేక అవసరాలు గల పిల్లలకు ఉపాధ్యాయులుగా పని చేసి, ప్రస్తుతం నిర్మాణ రంగంలో వున్నారు.ఈ సంవత్సరమే మరికొన్ని అనువాదాలు రానున్నాయి....

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...

కిష్మిష్ జూన్ నెల 'ఈమాట' వెబ్ పత్రికలో ప్రచురించారు.

https://eemaata.com/em/issues/202406/34506.html

కాథొలిక్ చర్చి సంప్రదాయం ప్రకారం, ఈస్టర్ పండుగ వచ్చే ముందు నలభై రోజుల్ని ‘లెంటు మాసం’ పేరుతో పిలుస్తారు. ఈ సందర్భంగా చర్చిలో ఉత్సవాలు జరుగుతాయి. వ్రతం పాటించాలనుకునేవాళ్ళు ఉపవాసం చేస్తూ ప్రార్థనలు చేస్తారు. ఇళ్ళల్లో ప్రత్యేకమైన వంటలు చేస్తారు. ఈ కథ రష్యన్ రచయిత్రి టెఫీ, తాను ఎనిమిదేళ్ళ పాపగా ఉన్నప్పుడు జరిగిన సంఘటన గురించి రాసింది.
నాదెజ్దా తెఫీ (అసలు పేరు నాదెజ్దా లోక్వితస్కయా) సెయింట్ పీటర్స్...

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. ...

​​The guest for this Episode is Brian Robert Moore. He spoke about his stint in Italy as a publisher and Editor and his Translation of the beautiful Short story collection 'You-Bleeding Childhood' written by the great Italian Author Michele Mari.

Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator originally from New York City. His published and forthcoming translations from Italian include Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza (Other Press), A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano (Pushkin Press), and You...

Jessica Cohen is an independent translator born in England, raised in Israel, and living in Denver. She translates contemporary Hebrew prose and other creative work. In 2017, she shared the Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar. She has also translated works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon and Maya Arad, and by filmmakers Ari Folman and Nadav Lapid. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for...

మూలం : మికేలి మరి ‘ఇటాలియన్’ లో రాసి, బ్రైన్ రాబర్ట్ మూర్ ఇంగ్లీష్ లోకి అనువదించిన ‘The Black Arrow’
‘ఆ మధ్యాహ్నం, వసంత కాలపు ఆఖరిరోజుల్లో, ఒక అరుదైన సమయాన దుర్గపు బురుజు నుంచి ఘంటారావం మొదలైంది.’
‘ఒక మధ్యాహ్నం, వసంతకాలం ఇంక ముగిసిపోతోందనగా, ఆ అసాధారణ సమయాన కోట బురుజు నుంచి ఘంటానాదం విన్పించింది.’

మా అమ్మమ్మ వాళ్ళింట్లోని లైబ్రరీలో, ఏ పుస్తకం చేతిలోకి తీసుకోవాలా అని ఆలోచిస్తూ ఒక రోజంతా అలా అలమరల ఎదురుగా నిలుచుండిపోయాను. ప్రతి వేసవి సెలవుల్లో నేను చదివే బుట్టెడు పాత బొమ్మల పుస్తకాలు గత నెలరోజుల...