The inaugural round of PEN Translates x SALT has selected two titles for awards:
- Our City, That Year by Geetanjali Shree (India), translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis Press)
- Songs in a Time of Confinement by Mohamed Rashmy Ahamed (Sri Lanka), translated from Tamil by Nedra Rodrigo (trace press).
PEN Translates is English PEN’s flagship grant program; it has now supported more than 390 books translated from more than 90 languages. The new PEN Translates x SALT strand is open to works of South Asian literature in English translation published anywhere outside the region.
Congratulations to our winning publishers!
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