What happens when stories move between languages? And how does translation shape the ways we read Southasian literature today?
Join the acclaimed Hindi-Urdu translator, writer and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil for a special Fiction Fest conversation on the craft of writing across languages. Drawing on her extensive experience translating and championing Southasian literature, Jalil will reflect on literary translation as both a creative and cultural practice, and on the role it plays in bringing readers into conversation across borders.
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Writing Across Languages: Fiction and Translation
A conversation with Rakhshanda Jalil on translation, literary exchange and the journeys stories take across languages