Sana R. Chaudhry
@sanarch.bsky.social
Writer, literary translator, educator. Assistant Professor @U of North Florida. Focus on trauma, memory, literatures of the body, diaspora studies, literary translation, South Asia, and world literature.
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Iranian interdisciplinary artist Anima builds a truly avant-garde literary-performance piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script. Translated from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Chatrang by Anima Ehtiat - Words Without Borders
Iranian artist Anima builds an avant-garde piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script.
wordswithoutborders.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Iranian interdisciplinary artist Anima builds a truly avant-garde literary-performance piece involving a game of chess, a Shakespearean sonnet, mysterious instructions, and the Jiroft script. Translated from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri. Read here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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On WWB, you can read the five finalists for this year’s @armorysqprize.bsky.social for South Asian Literature, including the winner. Click the link to read all five excerpts—stories of digital disaster, historical revolution, and more: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...
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@sanarch.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On WWB, you can read the five finalists for this year’s @armorysqprize.bsky.social for South Asian Literature, including the winner. Click the link to read all five excerpts—stories of digital disaster, historical revolution, and more: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...
@sanarch.bsky.social
@sanarch.bsky.social
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WWB-er Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp chats with some fantastic translators about the Moomins for World Refugee Week!
The Moomins are the mascot of World Refugee Week! And we’re celebrating their 80th anniversary today on our website, discussing the cultural phenomenon #Moomins #refugee #kidlit
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Welcoming refugees with respect and kindness: 80 years of the Moomins
by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp This year is the 80th anniversary of The Moomins and the Great Flood, originally published in Swedish in 1945 by Finnish artist, illustrator, and writer Tove Jansson. And this…
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June 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
WWB-er Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp chats with some fantastic translators about the Moomins for World Refugee Week!
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Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us.
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
2025 Armory Square Prize Winner and Shortlist — Armory Square Ventures
Launched in July of 2022, the Armory Square Prize is an effort to remedy the stark disparities in literary translation worldwide and support compelling storytellers from the Indian Subcontinent by rai...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us.
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...
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Watch former SALT mentee Aditya Vikram Shrivastava read their translation from the Hindi of an excerpt from the novel Miljul Mann by Mridula Garg! www.youtube.com/watc...
Aditya Vikram Shrivastava Reads from "Saira Banu on Chacha’s Motorcycle," by Mridula Garg
“When Gul arrived at Haqim’s house wrapped from head to toe in a manly raincoat, he gazed at her quizzically. She answered his gaze with a doleful stare that seemed to say, I will eat you alive.”
About the Reading:
An excerpt from Mridula Garg’s Hindi novel Miljul Mann, this short episode is about
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June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Watch former SALT mentee Aditya Vikram Shrivastava read their translation from the Hindi of an excerpt from the novel Miljul Mann by Mridula Garg! www.youtube.com/watc...
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A finalist for the @armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A finalist for the @armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q
What a night!
Spring Revel 2025 @parisreview.bsky.social
Spring Revel 2025 @parisreview.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What a night!
Spring Revel 2025 @parisreview.bsky.social
Spring Revel 2025 @parisreview.bsky.social
I have no words to express the gratitude I am feeling. Thank you @parisreview.bsky.social for selecting my translation of Julien Columeau's "Derrida in Lahore" for this incredible honor. A special shoutout to @shreedaisy.bsky.social, @terribleman.com & Kanishka Gupta for their unrelenting support.
We are delighted to announce that Elijah Bailey will receive this year’s George Plimpton Prize and that Julien Columeau and Sana R. Chaudhry will receive the Susannah Hunnewell Prize. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
Announcing the 2025 George Plimpton and Susannah Hunnewell Prizewinners - The Paris Review
“We are delighted to announce that Elijah Bailey will receive this year’s George Plimpton Prize and that Julien Columeau and Sana R. Chaudhry will receive the Susannah Hunnewell Prize.”
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March 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I have no words to express the gratitude I am feeling. Thank you @parisreview.bsky.social for selecting my translation of Julien Columeau's "Derrida in Lahore" for this incredible honor. A special shoutout to @shreedaisy.bsky.social, @terribleman.com & Kanishka Gupta for their unrelenting support.
Congratulations, mentees of 2025!🪩
🎉 ALTA is very excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program!
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
There are 19 mentees in 2025. Learn more about them here, and join us in celebrating these promising emerging translators! https://buff.ly/3QbC2Bg
February 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Congratulations, mentees of 2025!🪩
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Hey, Translators!
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
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IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
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International Japanese-English Translation Conference
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February 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hey, Translators!
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
Mubarak!🪩 @shreedaisy.bsky.social
We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland.
Discover the winners ⬇️
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Discover the winners ⬇️
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PEN Translates winners announced - English PEN
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February 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Mubarak!🪩 @shreedaisy.bsky.social
WHAT!😍
First look at Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s #Frankenstein.
Releasing in November on Netflix.
Releasing in November on Netflix.
January 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
WHAT!😍
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.
January 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.
May this wonderful, brilliant, generous human being rest in eternal peace. RIP, Dr. Mauro. Until we meet again.
#jasonmauro #universityofnorthflorida
#jasonmauro #universityofnorthflorida
January 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
May this wonderful, brilliant, generous human being rest in eternal peace. RIP, Dr. Mauro. Until we meet again.
#jasonmauro #universityofnorthflorida
#jasonmauro #universityofnorthflorida
