Ranjit Hoskote
@ranjithoskote.bsky.social
Poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. Author: The Homeland's an Ocean (2024); Icelight (2023); Hunchprose (2021); Jonahwhale (2018); Central Time (2014); I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011); Vanishing Acts (2006). Alumnus @uiiwp & BAK Utrecht.
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In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment
Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse
One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...
artsfuse.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment
Reposted by Ranjit Hoskote
@ranjithoskote.bsky.social explores the interplay between written, oral and corporal expression in South Asian literature.
What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
While Ten Indian Classics features eight—or, as the voice in my head insists, nine—of South Asia’s languages, it invites the reader to engage with the region in its multilingual plenitude, its many…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@ranjithoskote.bsky.social explores the interplay between written, oral and corporal expression in South Asian literature.
Reposted by Ranjit Hoskote
Read @ranjithoskote.bsky.social on translating Mir.
Ranjit Hoskote on The Homeland's an Ocean
As I found my way deeper into his oeuvre, I realised that Mir has been terribly ill served by his conventional representation as a poet of thwarted love and chronic sorrow. I became committed to the o...
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January 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Read @ranjithoskote.bsky.social on translating Mir.