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SUMMARY:Translating the Margins - A talk by Mr. V. Ramaswamy
LOCATION:Chandragupta (West Wing) Learning Commons - D
DESCRIPTION:Literary & Cultural Studies Specialisation\ninvites you to a talk by em
 inent translator\nV. Ramaswamy\nTitle of the talk – "Translating the Margin
 s"\nDate – Nov 28, Tuesday\nTime – 10 - 11 am\nVenue - Chandragupta (West W
 ing) Learning Commons - D\nAbout the speaker –\nV. Ramaswamy is a non-ficti
 on writer and translator. He translates from Bengali to English. He has tra
 nslated Subimal Misra’s The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Storie
 s, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-Stories, and Manoranjan Byapari’s
  novels, The Runaway Boy, and The Nemesis. His translation of Adhir Biswas'
 s Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins, was published in 2022, as 
 were Shahidul Zahir’s Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas (co-translat
 ed with Shahroza Nahrin), and Why There Are No Noyontara Flowers in Agargao
 n Colony: Stories. Ramaswamy's translation of the novel, I See The Face, al
 so by Shahidul Zahir was published in 2023. Ramaswamy has attended residenc
 ies at Sangam House, India, Writers Omi, USA, and Toji Cultural Foundation,
  Korea. He was selected for the Toji Fellowship in Wonju, Korea, in 2015, a
 nd the Literature Across Frontiers – Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
  in creative writing & translation at Aberystwyth University, Wales, in
  2016. Ramaswamy received the translation fellowship of the New India Found
 ation in 2022, and a sample translation grant from English PEN in the same 
 year. His translations of The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories, by Subimal M
 isra, the novel, The Interloper, by Manorajan Byapari, and the memoir, The 
 Song of the Faraway Village, by Ansar Uddin, are under publication, and he 
 is currently completing the translation of the novel, Talashnama, by Ismail
  Darbesh, and Last Bench: A Childhood Memoir of an Untouchable Boy, by Adhi
 r Biswas.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span><strong>Literary &am
 p; Cultural Studies Specialisation</strong></span></p><p style="font-weight
 : 400; text-align: center;"><span>invites you to a talk by</span><span> emi
 nent translator</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>V. Ramaswamy</b
 ></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Title of the talk – "<strong>Transl
 ating the Margins"</strong></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Da
 te – <strong>Nov 28, Tuesday</strong></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;
 "><span>Time – <strong>10 - 11 am</strong></span></p><p style="font-weight:
  400;"><span>Venue - <strong>Chandragupta (West Wing) Learning Commons - D<
 /strong></span></p><p><strong>About the speaker –</strong></p><p><span>V. R
 amaswamy is a non-fiction writer and translator. He translates from Bengali
  to English. He has translated Subimal Misra’s The Golden Gandhi Statue fro
 m America: Early Stories, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-Stories, a
 nd Manoranjan Byapari’s novels, The Runaway Boy, and The Nemesis. His trans
 lation of Adhir Biswas's Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins, was
  published in 2022, as were Shahidul Zahir’s Life and Political Reality: Tw
 o Novellas (co-translated with Shahroza Nahrin), and Why There Are No Noyon
 tara Flowers in Agargaon Colony: Stories. Ramaswamy's translation of the no
 vel, I See The Face, also by Shahidul Zahir was published in 2023. Ramaswam
 y has attended residencies at Sangam House, India, Writers Omi, USA, and To
 ji Cultural Foundation, Korea. He was selected for the Toji Fellowship in W
 onju, Korea, in 2015, and the Literature Across Frontiers – Charles Wallace
  India Trust Fellowship in creative writing &amp; translation at Aberystwyt
 h University, Wales, in 2016. Ramaswamy received the translation fellowship
  of the New India Foundation in 2022, and a sample translation grant from E
 nglish PEN in the same year. His translations of The Earth Quakes: Late Ant
 i-Stories, by Subimal Misra, the novel, The Interloper, by Manorajan Byapar
 i, and the memoir, The Song of the Faraway Village, by Ansar Uddin, are und
 er publication, and he is currently completing the translation of the novel
 , Talashnama, by Ismail Darbesh, and Last Bench: A Childhood Memoir of an U
 ntouchable Boy, by Adhir Biswas.</span></p>
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