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Ranjit Hoskote

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Poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. Author: The Homeland's an Ocean (2024); Icelight (2023); Hunchprose (2021); Jonahwhale (2018); Central Time (2014); I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011); Vanishing Acts (2006). Alumnus @uiiwp & BAK Utrecht.

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Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...

In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment

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What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity While Ten Indian Classics features eightβ€”or, as the voice in my head insists, nineβ€”of South Asia’s languages, it invites the reader to engage with the region in its multilingual plenitude, its many…

@ranjithoskote.bsky.social explores the interplay between written, oral and corporal expression in South Asian literature.

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Ranjit Hoskote on The Homeland's an Ocean As I found my way deeper into his oeuvre, I realised that Mir has been terribly ill served by his conventional representation as a poet of thwarted love and chronic sorrow. I became committed to the o...

Read @ranjithoskote.bsky.social on translating Mir.

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