Front cover of Jol Boner Kabyo by Sarala Basu (detail). Photo by Romana Klee via Flickr.
In what ways does the inclusion of the writer during the translation process shape the methodology and outcome?
Writers and translators will gather at a series of workshops to explore questions about translation theory and craft.
Literary translation is by definition a collaborative practice. The SummerSALT translation workshops for emerging translators working from South Asian languages will serve as a living laboratory for translators and writers to further investigate: To what extent does the inclusion of the writers of the texts during the real-time process of translation shape the methodology and outcome? This first-of-its-kind gathering this summer in Colombo, Sri Lanka, will put into practice both the theoretical and craft-based strands of translation studies, and allow the workshops to explore questions of translations as co-present texts that are iterative versions of the same work, rather than as a hierarchy between translation and original.
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Translation Studies
University of Chicago
Rachel Galvin is a scholar, poet, and translator specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century comparative poetics in English, Spanish, and French. Her research and teaching interests include comparative modernisms, hemispheric studies, U.S. Latinx literature, wartime literature,...
Instructional Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Jason Grunebaum's translations from Hindi include Uday Prakash’s The Girl with the Golden Parasol, The Walls of Delhi, and, with Ulrike Stark, Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man. He has been awarded the Global Humanities Translation Prize, a National...
Co-Director, SALT
University of Chicago
Daniel Hahn is co-director of SALT (South Asian Literature in Translation), and a writer, editor, and translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is currently writing a book about Shakespeare in translation, co-editing a collection of Brazilian short stories, and translating a...
Lecturer, Creative Writing
University of Chicago
Annie Janusch’s translations include works by Esther Dischereit, Jürgen Goldstein, Wolf Haas, Anja Kampmann, Heinrich von Kleist, and Uwe Tellkamp. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and the University...
Writer, Translator in Residence
Princeton University
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She has translated numerous classic literary works from Hindi and Urdu into English, including Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her translation of Geetanjali...
Co-Director of the Ashoka Centre
Ashoka University
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over 80 of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He has also contributed to...
