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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He/Him. Independent journalist who writes mostly about culture, history, and politics. Words all over the place. Immigrant Londoner. My work here: https://authory.com/AdityaIyer. @Thatadityaiyer over at the other place.
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Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
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Researcher + curator + writer. Art and Infrastructural Cultures. AHRC-funded PhD, Goldsmiths UoL (2024). Lecturer Manchester Metropolitan University
Hindustani Raga Musician. Early Career Ethnomusicologist/Music Historian of Senses and Citizenship in Bengali Britain at the University of Durham. Part-time Fountain Pen Collector. Part-time Art Enthusiast. Passionate Cook.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
"Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar 🇵🇱 2001-02 | FLAS Fellow 🇺🇦 2000 | BDS | LGBTQIA+
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Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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