Specials
Quarantine by Rajinder Singh Bedi
C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program within the School of Foreign Service, translates Rajinder Singh Bedi’s timeless short story, Quarantine.
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Translations
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Coffee House – The Leitmotif of Kolkata by Prabal Kumar Basu
Armaan Singh translates, from Bangla, an essay by poet Prabal Kumar Basu.
Memoirs
The Dreams of a Mappila Girl
In the preface to her memoir, the author B. M. Zuhara writes, “I grew up at a time when Muslim girls did not even have..
Specials
3 Poems by Monibhushan Bhattacharya in Translation
Monibhushan Bhattacharya was a major poet who transformed the language of Bengali poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His poems were published in famous literary journals including the Buddhadeb Basu edited Kabita, Porichoy, Chaturanga and Purbasha.
Specials
Translations from Ṛtusaṃhāra and Meghadūta by Kalidasa
Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India’s greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.
Poetry
4 poems by Diego Valeri in Translation
Diego Valeri is an Italian poet and literary critic affectionately remembered as ‘the poet of Venice’. Laura Valeri translates four of his poems here.
Translations
4 Poems by Polish Writer Tadeusz Slawek in Translation
In this set of poems translated by The Femina Hodierna Collective, Sławek invites the reader on a journey to the origins, to the pond, to the roots (of a tree) and engages us in an intimate conversation with ourselves, to which nature is the only witness.
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Five Poems by Huang Fan
Walking When I walk, my shoes squeak in painI pretend it’s a blessingWalking will take my health to voidSo I pretend not hearing the pain..
Translations
Grandpa
Then Grandpa walked in. Tall—he just cleared the lintel—and smiling, undoubtedly well over seventy, but quite strong. He was holding a prickly plaid lap blanket…
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Resigned Song by Antonia Pozzi
Resigned Songfor A.M.C Come, my sweet friend:on the firm white roaduntil the whole valley turns blue.Come: it’s so sweet to walknear you, even if you..
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Two Poems by Wróblewski
Translator’s Note I was drawn to Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poems some years ago while reading an anthology of contemporary Polish poetry. This anthology had all the..
Translations
Two poems from Lorinc Szabo
Translator’s Note: Lőrinc Szabó is one of the giants of the Hungarian literary scene of the mid-20th century. He often invoked his children Klara and..
Translations
Two Poems by Meschonnic
a lineis only asentence that stops then anotherlife rhymeswith lifewe are all living rhymeswho look tofinish their sentencesthere is noend ofspeakingmaybe without knowing itwe are..
Translations
El Silencio de Las Cosas or The Silence of Things
Por qué pedir más luz vedada altura,si es seguro otro duelo bajo el dueloy fatigar las alas con el vueloo desgarrarse en la opulenta hondura?..
Translations
The Trouble with Happiness
When I was seventeen we moved into a three room apartment, in what my mother called “a better neighborhood.” The monthly rent was twenty kroner..
Poetry
Bird of Breath: Four Rubai
سەردەفتەرێ وەصفێن تەیە دیباجەیێ دلیەک قەطرە ژ لوطفا تەیە سیراجەیێ دلذکرێ تە دکت دوڕ و ضیا لەهجەیێ دلطەیرێ نەفەسا های و هوویا لەهجەیێ دل A..
Literature
Chitarroni and Chatwin in Patagonia
Author: Luis Chitarroni Title: From Siluetas/Silhouettes (La Bestia Equilátera, 2012) Language: Spanish (Argentina) Excerpt Length: Approx. 1,300 Words Translator: Allison A. deFreeseRights Holder: Luis Chitarroni,..
Poetry
Classical Chinese Poems from Song Dynasty
In this section we present a series of Chinese Classical poetry translated by Gary Young.
Poetry
A Nilgai Deer in the City of Delhi
Between the high walland the roadwith six lines of trafficon a scrap of dried out soil under a dried up treea deer standsin the very..
Poetry
YERE YERE PAUSA
Yere yere pausa Come to me rain, let the drops percolate, collect in plastic tubs drained through pipes made of dreams and denim Tula..
Poetry
FIXED STARS
ESTRELLAS FIJAS Cuando ya de la vida el alma tenga, con el cuerpo, rota, y duerma en el sepulcro esa noche, más larga que las..
Fiction
The leather bag
Translated from Tamil by Jayanthi Sankar She pressed the doorbell. One of the duplicate keys to the front door had been left with her. However, she..
Poetry
For a Poem
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. I go near a tree and utter: Oh kind tree, can you provide me a poem? The tree..
Poetry
Oh Freedom
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. Freedom, you’re The classic verses of Tagore, timeless lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul a great man with thick..