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Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation-state of their own.  The Kurds live in a geo-political area called "Kurdistan", the land of the Kurds, which straddles four different countries in today's Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.

Today’s Guest is Kareem Abdulrahman. Kareem Abdulrahman is a translator and Kurdish affairs analyst. From 2006 to 2014, he worked as a Kurdish media and political analyst for the BBC, where translation was part of his job. In 2013, he was awarded a place in the British Centre for Literary Translation’s prestigious mentorship programme. He translated prominent Iraqi Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali's I Stared at the Night of the City into English (UK; Periscope; 2016), making it the first Kurdish novel to be translated into English. He is also the Head of Editorial at Insight Iraq, a political analysis service focusing on Iraq and Kurdish affairs. He lives in London. His recent translation, ‘The Last Pomegranate Tree’, also by Bachtyar Ali, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

'The Last Pomegranate Tree' is published by Archipelago Books.

In this conversation, he spoke about Kurdistan, Its Literature, Author Bhachtyar Ali, and translations of Ali’s Work into English. 

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Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world translating many of his books and writing his biography. She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Yoko Tawada. Her prizes for translation include the  Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize,  Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.  In 2017 she won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for her translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada.

In this episode, she spoke about her views on translations, the author Yoko Tawada and her translation of Tawada's novel 'Spontaneous Acts' released in July 2024.

'Spontaneous Acts' written by Tawada in Berlin during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, pays homage to Paul Celan, a longstanding influence on her work. Arguably the most important German-language poet of the post-World War II era, Celan is known for the diamond-hard density of his lyrical lines, estranging words from their inherited meanings, and thereby opening up new avenues of association and interpretation.

You can read Yoko Tawada's article on Paul Celan's Poems written in 2013, via the link in the show notes.

https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/celan-reads-japanese/

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The guest for this Episode is Carolin Duttlinger. She spoke about Kafka's allure, Kafka as a reader and Kafka Oxford Research Center.

Carolin Duttlinger a Professor and tutor in German at Wadham College, Oxford. She teaches German literature, film and culture from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as translation. A particular focus of Carolin’s research is the writer Franz Kafka.

She is co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, which hosts conferences, and workshops and works closely with the Bodleian Library, where the majority of Kafka’s manuscripts are kept.

Carolin edited 'Franz Kafka in Context' a compilation of thirty-five short, accessible essays, where leading international scholars explore Kafka’s personal and working life, his reception of art and culture, his engagement with political and social issues, and his ongoing reception and influence.

Her books include Kafka and Photography and The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka among others. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.

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Today We have Benjamin Balint with us speaking about his book 'Kafka's Last Trail'.

Kafka’s Last Trial begins with Kafka’s last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius—even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction.

By the time of Brod’s death in Tel Aviv in 1968, Kafka’s major works had been published, transforming the once little-known writer into a pillar of literary modernism. Yet Brod left a wealth of still unpublished papers to his secretary Esther Hoffe, who sold some, held on to the rest, and then passed the bulk of them on to her daughters, who in turn refused to release them. An international legal battle erupted to determine who could claim ownership of Kafka’s work: Hoffe's Family, Israel, where Kafka dreamed of living but never entered, or Germany as Kafka wrote exclusively in German.

Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts—brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political—that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts.

Benjamin Balint is the author of Bruno Schulz' S Biography and Kafka’s Last Trial,. He was awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and is the coauthor of Jerusalem: City of the Book. A library fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he regularly writes on culture for The Wall Street Journal, the Jewish Review of Books, and other publications.

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మధురాంతకం నరేంద్ర గారు తన రచనా వ్యాసంగాన్ని నలభై ఆరేళ్ళ క్రితం ప్రారంభించారు. వారిది సాహిత్య కుటుంబం. వారి తండ్రి గారు మధురాంతకం రాజారామ్ గారు , సోదరుడు మహేంద్ర గారు కూడా సుప్రసిద్ధ తెలుగు కథా రచయితలు.

వృత్తిరీత్యా ఆంగ్ల అధ్యాపకులు.

మన సమాజంలో, మన వ్యక్తిత్వాలలో వుండే వైచిత్రిని , అనేక రకాలైన సంఘర్షణలని అతి సుతారమైన తనదైన శైలిలో , అత్యంత సహజంగా చిత్రీకరించడమే ఆయన రచనలలో వుండే ప్రత్యేకత.

ఒక సకారాకాత్మకమైన మార్పు , కథ చదివే ప్రతి వ్యక్తిలో, తద్వారా మన సమాజంలో తీసుక రావాలని ఆశించే రచయిత.

అత్యంత ప్రతిష్టాత్మకమైన కేంద్ర సాహిత్య అకాడమీ అవార్డుని 2022 వ సంవత్సరంలో అందుకున్నారు.

ఈ సంభాషణలో ఆయన తన కొత్త నవల 'దాయాదుల తోట' గురించి మాట్లాడారు. దాయాదుల తోట అజు పబ్లికేషన్స్ వాళ్ళు మనకందిస్తున్నారు.

నవలని షో నోట్స్ లోని లింక్ ద్వారా కొనుగోలు చెయ్యవచ్చు.

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The Guest for this Episode is Michelle Woods. She spoke about Analyzing translations, the 'Objective subjectivity' of translators, and different translations of Kafka over the years, and how each of these provided us with great insights into Kafka's work.

Michelle Woods is a Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the authoer of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka (2014), Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation (2012), and Translating Milan Kundera (2006), the editor of Authorizing Translation (2017), and co-editor of Teaching Literature in Translation (2022). She is writing a non-fiction book about the female translators of Anna Karenina, called Reading Anna. She is co-editor of the book series for Bloomsbury: Literatures, Cultures, Translation. Her translations have appeared in Granta and Words Without Borders, and she loves teaching as much dark and funny Central European literature as possible. 

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In this Episode, Harshaneeyam Speaks to Writer Jeyamohan on the eve of his 'Aram' Stories getting translated into Telugu. The book is titled ‘Nemmi Neelam’ and translated by Bhaskar Avineni. Chaaya Resources is the Publisher.

Bhaskar Avineni is an acclaimed translator from Tamil to Telugu and it is his second Publication. Aram Stories were translated into English as ‘Stories of the True’ by Priyamvada Ramkumar shortlisted for the ALTA Prize in 2023.

Writer Jeyamohan is highly regarded as one of the most creative and Prolific writers from India. He writes mostly in Tamil and also in Malayalam. 

His output includes nine novels, ten volumes of short stories/plays, thirteen literary criticisms, five biographies of writers, six introductions to Indian and Western literature, three volumes on Hindu and Christian philosophy and numerous other translations and collections. He has also written scripts for Malayalam and Tamil movies. 

His writing is heavily influenced by the works of humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Drawing on the strength of his life experiences and extensive travel around India, Jeyamohan re-examines and interprets the essence of India’s rich literary and classical traditions.

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In this Episode, Harshaneeyam Speaks to Writer Jeyamohan on the eve of his Aram Stories getting translated into Telugu titled ‘Nemmi Neelam’ by Bhaskar Avineni.  It is Published by Chaaya Resources - Hyderabad.

Bhaskar Avineni is an acclaimed translator from Tamil to Telugu and it is his second Publication.  Aram Stories translated into English as ‘Stories of the True’ by Priyamvada Ramkumar shortlisted for the ALTA Prize in 2023.

Writer Jeyamohan is highly regarded as one of the most creative and Prolific writers from India. He writes mostly in Tamil and also in Malayalam. 

His output includes nine novels, ten volumes of short stories/plays, thirteen literary criticisms, five biographies of writers, six introductions to Indian and Western literature, three volumes on Hindu and Christian philosophy and numerous other translations and collections. He has also written scripts for Malayalam and Tamil movies. 

His writing is heavily influenced by the works of humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Drawing on the strength of his life experiences and extensive travel around India, Jeyamohan re-examines and interprets the essence of India's rich literary and classical traditions.

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ఈ ఎపిసోడ్లో 2024 వ సంవత్సరానికి ఆటా (అమెరికన్ తెలుగు అసోసియేషన్) బహుమతి పొందిన "చెదరిన పాదముద్రలు" నవలపై రచయిత ఉణుదుర్తి సుధాకర్ గారితో ఏ కే ప్రభాకర్ గారి సంభాషణ మీరు వింటారు.

రచయిత ఉణుదుర్తి సుధాకర్ గారి స్వస్థలం విశాఖపట్నం. సాహిత్య అభిలాషకు కారణం కుటుంబ వాతావరణం. స్కూలు చదువు శ్రీకాకుళం. ఉన్నత విద్య యూరోప్లో. వృత్తి రీత్యా మెరైన్ ఇంజనీర్. వీరి మొదటి నవల 'యారాడకొండ' కూడా ఆటా బహుమతిని పొందింది. తూరుపు గాలులు, చలిచీమల కవాతు వీరి కథాసంపుటాలు. వీరి కథల ఇంగ్లీష్ అనువాదం 'ఈస్ట్ విండ్' క్రిందటి ఏడాది విడుదలైంది.

తెలుగు కన్నడ రాష్ట్రాల్లో 35 సంవత్సరాలు సంస్కృతం – తెలుగు పాఠాలు చెప్పి రిటైర్ అయిన ఎ.కె. ప్రభాకర్ ‘తెలుగులో మాండలిక కథాసాహిత్యం’ పై పరిశోధన చేసి అదే పేరుతో ప్రచురించారు.స్త్రీ వాద కథలు , నిషేధ గీతాలు , పాపినేని శివశంకర్ కథలు, తాడిగిరి పోతరాజు కథలు, నంబూరి పరిపూర్ణ సాహిత్యం - జీవితం - వ్యక్తిత్వం, వంటి పుస్తకాలకి సంపాదకత్వ బాధ్యతలు వహించారు.' వేమన దారిలో’ పేరున ఎంపిక చేసిన వేమన పద్యాలకు వ్యాఖ్యానం చేసారు. ‘సమకాలీనం’ పేరుతో కథా విమర్శ పై వ్యాససంపుటి వెలువరించారు. 

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Kafka's Biography written in three parts in German by Reiner Stach is considered as one of the best Biographies published ever. Renowned translator Shelley Frisch rendered it into English with great dexterity and dedication. In this episode, she spoke about her affinity towards the translation of Biographies, Kafka's Allure, Challenges in translating Non-Fiction and how she handled this 3-part 1800-page work.

Shelley Frisch taught German literature at Bucknell University, Columbia University, and Haverford College, where she chaired the German Department, before turning to translation full-time in the 1990s. Her translations, which include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography), and Franz Kafka, have been awarded numerous translation prizes. Among her recent translations are a volume of Billy Wilder’s early journalism, an overview of Early German Romanticism, an annotated collection of Kafka’s aphorisms, a Holocaust memoir, and a study of the origins of Critical Theory; she is currently translating a biography of Hannah Arendt. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. 

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