‘Tamil is my next project’: Booker-longlisted translator Padma Viswanathan on returning to her heritage language

The Canadian-American writer of Indian origin, longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 for her translation of Ana ...

‘I describe myself as a smuggler, border-crosser across languages’: Translator J Devika

Academic and feminist J Devika’s politics is central to the job of translation, and she is never apologetic about it. Her recent translation of Manoj Kuroor’s novel The Day the Earth Bloomed won the ...