South Asian Literature in Translation (the SALT Project) is pleased to announce SummerSALT, a weeklong residential summer school for emerging translators from South Asian languages. The school will be held August 5-9, 2024, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The application process was extremely competitive, and forty-one applicants were selected. SALT is delighted to bring these emerging translators together with the resources, experiences, and networks that can move their work forward.
SummerSALT will include five workshops:
- Bangla, led by Arunava Sinha, with guest writer Shaheen Akhtar
- Hindi-Urdu, led by Daisy Rockwell, with guest writer Asghar Wajahat
- Tamil, led by Sumathy Sivamohan, with guest writer Sivanu Manoharan
- Multilingual poetry, led by Ranjit Hoskote
- Multilingual prose, led by Tejaswini Niranjana
The multilingual groups include students working from Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Marathi, Pali, Panjabi, Sinhala, and Telugu; applications were welcomed from students working from any South Asian language.
Frequently asked questions about SummerSALT:
- What will SummerSALT participants do? A typical day includes about 4.5 hours of workshopping plus a plenary session. Participants will meet publishers, authors, and of course fellow translators, accomplished experts as well as those just starting out.
- The keynote event is a conversation between Shehan Karunatilaka and Geetanjali Shree, winners of the 2022 Booker Prize (for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida) and the 2022 International Booker Prize (for Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell), respectively.
- There will be a special session devoted to the translation scene in Sri Lanka.
- When is SummerSALT? SummerSALT begins Monday, August 5, at 4 pm, and runs through 3 pm on Friday, August 9.
- When will SummerSALT be held again? We currently don’t have plans for a future SummerSALT.
SALT gratefully acknowledges the active partnership of American Institute for Lankan Studies, and additional support from the Neubauer Collegium.