Last week, we were thrilled to celebrate the first 3 years of the Armory Square Prize at @wwborders.bsky.social's annual gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York City! Novelist @meghamaj.bsky.social was our gracious table host.

Stay tuned for Prize round 4 updates soon!

Last month, Syracuse University's South Asia Center invited founding Armory Square Prize jury member @shreedaisy.bsky.social to lead a workshop on translation's role in teaching and researching South Asia and other parts of the world. She had to stop by historic Armory Square while she was in town!

Two Month Review, from our friends @openletterbooks.bsky.social, spent the summer reading jury member @shreedaisy.bsky.social's translation of Tomb of Sand.
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!

Opportunity alert! Our friends @southasiaspeaks.bsky.social are accepting applications for their fellowship program now through Sept. 30 from emerging translators living in South Asia.
Learn more & apply here: www.southasiaspeaks.org/fellowship/. Good luck to all!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Ciara Mandulee Mendis. A Sri Lankan writer who has won multiple awards, including the State Literary Award, her work appears in several international journals. She translates into and out of both Sinhala and English. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Subhashree Beeman. A translator working from Tamil and French into English, she is winner of the 2024 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and 2024 SALT/ALTA Emerging Literary Translation Mentorship. Her entry earned Special Mention from our jury. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Sumathy Sivamohan. She is Professor in English at the University of Peradeniya and an acclaimed film maker, dramatist, performer, poet and translator. In 2011, she received the Premchand Fellowship from the Sahithya Akademi of India. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Punarvasu Joshi. A nanotechnology researcher turned translator, he has translated 40 Hindi short stories for a 2-volume anthology titled ‘A Journey In Time.' His recent translation is the novel ‘The Madhouse,’ which came out in January. Congrats!

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: To Each Their Own Hell by Akhtar Mohiuddin, translated by Mehdi Khawaja

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Saigon Puducherry by Nagarathinam Krishna, translated by Subhashree Beeman

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Moumin or The Believer and Other Stories by Shobasakthi, translated by Sumathy Sivamohan

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Grandmothers, Granddaughters and Other Women by Kumudu Kumarasinghe, translated by Ciara Mendis

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Badalta Hua Desh by Manoj Kumar Pandey, translated by Punarvusu Joshi

Congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of this year's Armory Square Prize! His translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin's To Each Their Own Hell was chosen by our jury as this year's top entry in a very impressive field of translated works.

Save the date! We'll be joining our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social on 6/16 to announce the 2025 Armory Square Prize winner during this engaging Fiction Fest event.
Join us for the panel, readings from our 5 finalists and the live announcement of our winner! RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨Deadline extended!🚨 To ensure that all qualified translators are able to submit their work for this year's prize, we are extending the deadline by two weeks. All submissions must be received by end of day on April 15.
Guidelines and submission form here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...

Time's running out to apply for this year's Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! See submission guidelines and apply here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...