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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.

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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...

The guest for this Episode is Peter Bush. Born in Lincolnshire, UK, He has translated works from Catalan, French, Spanish and Portuguese to English. He spoke about his Translations in Catalan, Prominent authors in Catalan, Translation as an academic Discipline, and his Experience at the British Center for Literary Translation (BCLT).

Bush has been active not only as a translator but also in developing literary translation as an academic discipline by working in the academic world, serving in ke...

In this episode, Senior translator Alex Zucker spoke about his work, Translation contracts and the Czech Author Jachym Topol.

Alex Zucker has translated novels by the Czech authors Magdaléna Platzová, Jáchym Topol, Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, J. R. Pick, Tomáš Zmeškal, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik Ouředník, and Miloslava Holubová. He has also Englished stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, philosophy, art history,...

The Guest for Today's Episode is Tiffany Tsao.

Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel The Majesties and the Oddfits fantasy trilogy (so far, The Oddfits and The More Known World.)

She has translated five books from Indonesian into English. For her translation of Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington, she was awarded the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. Her translation of Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s 'Happy Stories, M...

Today’s guest is Aananth Daksnamurthy. He is speaking about his passion for reading and publishing and his upcoming trip to India and Srilaka to look for literature for publication as a part of the SALT initiative. Aananth Daksnamurthy is a Fulbright scholar graduating with a master's in publishing from New York University. His first book, Acquisition, a Swedish novel titled The Details, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. Ananth is also part of the SALT contingent, visiting...

Romesh Gunesekera is on Harshaneeyam talking about evaluating the International Booker Prize - 2024 and his journey as a reader and writer.

Romesh Gunesekera was born in Colombo and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is currently judging the 2024 International Booker Prize.

(00:00) Introduction to Ramesh Bhunasekara and His Literary Journey

(01:16) The Beginnings of a Reader Turned Writer

(07:38) The Evolution of a Writer: From Reader to International Auth...

In this episode, Book Blogger, Reviewer, Stuart Allen spoke about the novel 'Undiscovered' and his passion for book reading.

Stuart Allen Lives in Chesterfield near the Peak District in UK. He works for the NHS to support patients with learning disabilities in the community to avoid going into hospital. He started his blog 'Winston'sdad' 14 years ago.

Initially, the challenge was to read 52 books from 52 countries; having done that, the focus has predominantly been on books in translation. He ...

'హాటకం' తమిళ రచయిత జయమోహన్ రాసిన కథ. తెలుగులోకి అవినేని భాస్కర్ అనువదించారు. క్రితం వారం 'ఉదయిని' వెబ్ మేగజైన్ లో ప్రచురింపబడింది.

ఈ లింక్ లో కథను చదువుకోవచ్చు.

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'Kairos' is a novel written by the famous German Novelist Jenny Erpenbeck. It was translated into English by Michael Hoffman. It is about life in East Germany in the 1980s, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and its effects. its short listed for International booker prize in 2024.

In this episode, Marina Sofia talks about the novel in detail, having read both the German and the English versions.

Marina Sofia is a reputed translator and co-founder of Corylus Books, a publishing house that translates ...

Our Guest for this episode is Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator for International Booker Prize since it was established in 2005.

Fiammetta spoke about her childhood in Nairobi, her love for books, her multilingualism, and the significance of the International Booker Prize to the world of literary fiction.

Fiammetta Rocco was an editor for 25 years at The Economist, specialising in books and arts.

Her journalism has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Fiammetta has been the judge of numerou...

Sarah Timmer Harvey spoke about translation of the novel, ' What I would Rather not think about' which is Short listed for International booker prize - 2024 in this episode.

Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Southern Cross University. Sarah’s translation of Jente Posthuma’s novel 'What I’d Rather Not Think About' was published by Scribe in 2023. Reconstruction, their translat...

This episode's guest is Kira Josefsson. She spoke about her translated work, 'The Details,' which is long-listed for the International Booker Prize 2024.

'The Details' was originally published in Swedish. Ia Genberg is the author.

Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator between Swedish and English. Her work has been Long-listed for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and writes on US events and politics in the Swe...