by brill | Oct 18, 2024 | Chicago, Opportunities, Opportunities for translators
Curious about what it takes to become a literary translator? Come to this star-studded panel discussion, including International Booker winner and UChicago alum Daisy Rockwell (Hindi-Urdu), and award-winning translators Jayasree Kalathil (Malayalam), Khairani Barokka...
by brill | Sep 24, 2024 | Chicago, SALT announces
Join International Booker Prize winning translator Daisy Rockwell, JCB Prize winning Malayalam translator Jayasree Kalathil, and others read from their translations from Bangla, Hindi, Malayalam, Panjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, and more. South Asian Literature in Translation...
by brill | Sep 20, 2024 | Chicago, SALT in the news
Enjoy this wide-ranging essay on Chicago’s “foreign lit scene,” including cogent observations from SALT’s own Jason Grunebaum: Translators have long been fighting for and are now enjoying greater visibility than they used to get as artists and...
by brill | Oct 23, 2023 | Chicago, Opportunities, Opportunities for translators
Tuesday, October 31, 9:30 am UChicagoGRAD HQ (Third floor of Campus Bookstore, 970 E 58th) How do you take a text that you’ve translated for your dissertation and reposition it for a much broader literary audience? What are the practicalities of securing the...
by brill | Oct 16, 2023 | Chicago, Opportunities, Opportunities for translators
Translator Daniel Hahn (UK) sits down with Rachel Galvin and Jason Grunebaum to discuss the world of translation, how to become a translator, and the new South Asian Literature in Translation project at UChicago. Monday, October 30, noon Room 408, Wieboldt Hall (1050...
