Saudamini Deo
@saudaminideo.bsky.social
Writing, translation, humanities / Paris-Cité, Jadavpur, DU / editor RIC Journal / ex @ifiofficiel
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Me in Jaipur next month:
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Me in Jaipur next month:
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Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
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My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My Russian Christmas tree that immediately reminded me of Soviet children’s book illustrations, the world of Raduga Publishers.
Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Noël x Paris
(part deux)
(part deux)
Me in Jaipur next month:
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Me in Jaipur next month:
Sharing this excellent essay on translation and literary memory. It briefly touches on an older piece I wrote for @wwborders.bsky.social, placing it in a broader discussion. A rich read for anyone exploring multilingual literary histories.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...
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(Re)staging ‘Sekese’ | Sydney Review of Books
Makafane Tšepang Ntlamelle reflects on being a (Black) Commonwealth literary translator, the Tolstoys of the Basutos, and the exhaustion of being The Lone Man. Anglophone publishers want more African ...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Sharing this excellent essay on translation and literary memory. It briefly touches on an older piece I wrote for @wwborders.bsky.social, placing it in a broader discussion. A rich read for anyone exploring multilingual literary histories.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/resta...
Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue.
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Submissions are now open for RIC Journal's annual themed anniversary issue.
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
This year's theme is *Intimate Anatomy*. Send us work that listens closely to the body, its secrets, frictions, ruptures, and revelations.
Details here:
ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/i...
The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
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New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The November 2025 issue of RIC Journal is now live. ✨
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
New texts, new wounds, new luminescences: poems, images, essays, fragments, voices touching at the edges of language.
Please read and share:
ricjournal.com
Even my own image sometimes seems another’s.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Even my own image sometimes seems another’s.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
Somewhere last night in Paris, by Buku Sarkar.
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Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English.
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
As Close to 600 BC As We Are to Tomorrow: A Conversation with Saudamini Deo - Asymptote Blog
The role of the translator is to madden a language, drive it insane, do unimaginable things with it.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English.
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English.
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
As Close to 600 BC As We Are to Tomorrow: A Conversation with Saudamini Deo - Asymptote Blog
The role of the translator is to madden a language, drive it insane, do unimaginable things with it.
www.asymptotejournal.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Two years ago, I spoke to Tristan Foster about my translation practice and the continuing project of translating Hindi literature's outsiders into English.
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
The project continues with Alok Dhanwa's The World is Made Up Every Day, with more to come later.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/05...
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Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @pearlpoet.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 1/2
www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 37
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."
electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."
electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...
Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature
An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor
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September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."
electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."
electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...
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This week in the poetry blogs with @kent-nj.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @racheldacusauthor.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 33
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us
August 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."
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The Rings of Saturn
One could lie down on the grass at night for hours looking at stars. Though one quickly discovers that apart from stars, there are also planets, meteors, flying planes, the moon, and Elon Musk’s St…
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August 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"I would like to die in a forest somewhere looking through a telescope."
beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...
beyondsixrivers.fr/2025/08/14/t...
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.