
SALT is a multi-year project based at @UChicago to support and promote South Asian Literature in English Translation
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The SALT Project’s travel grant program is accepting applications from publishers! This program allows publishers to make connections in South Asian literary markets.
Apply by November 16th, 2026! You can find out more info here: salt.humanities.uchicago.edu…
Calling all publishers of South Asian literature in English translation!
PEN Translates x SALT grants are open until November 30th!
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SALT had a great time in Nepal during this three-day translation workshop organized with Kathmandu University!
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Best Literary Translations is looking for a new co-editor of Asian literatures! Application deadline is October 5th!
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Congratulations to former SALT mentee Sadia Khatri on the publication of her essay "Blue Blue City" in South Parade! You can read the essay here: drive.google.com/file/d/1F1U…
ALTA and SALT are offering mentorships for translators working from Assamese, Nepali, Panjabi, Sindhi, and Tamil! There is also an open category for a translator working on speculative fiction from any South Asian language. Apply by November 30th!
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A great opportunity for translators from the languages of Bangladesh into English! Applications are due September 15th!
Congratulations to SALT mentee Bishnupriya Chowdhuri for the publication of her translation from the Bengali in The Common!
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Another great opportunity for translators of South Asian languages at Kathmandu University! Applications for this free translation workshop are open until August 9th, so make sure to send in your work soon!
kathmandupost.com/national/2…
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Translation workshop at Kathmandu University. August 9 deadline. Free participation. @buddhisagar @subinbhattarai1 @Nepallitfest @kathmandupost @SALTatChicago @KU_Dhulikhel @KUNotice @AjitBaral
Translators, apply for this exciting translation workshop! Here's the link: tinyurl.com/bac5mvc9
Congratulations to SALT mentee Sahana Hegde for the publication of her translation from Kannada in Hyphen!
Read the story here: the-hyphen.in/article/paru-t…
Attention aspiring translators of South Asian languages! The National Centre for Writing emerging translator mentorships are open for applications until August 24th. Check the link below for more information!
nationalcentreforwriting.org…
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We are thrilled to announce Pakistani translator and writer Haider Shahbaz as Wasafiri's newest International Translator in Residence, in partnership with @SALTatChicago!
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ALT Mint green background. Headline in black reads: Introducing our 2026/7 International Translator in Residence. Underneath to the left is more text which reads: Haider Shahbaz is Wasafiri's newest International Translator in Residence as part of our partnership with the SALT (South Asian Literature in Translation) Project. To the right is a photo of Haider. He is a South Asian man with short black hair and slight stubble. He wears an open collared white shirt and stands against a bookcase.
Congratulations to former SALT mentee Rohee Dholakia for her recently published translations from the Gujarati of Akha Bhagat in The Antonym Online!
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So happy to share this latest publication in a prestigious poetry international magazine- Poetry Today! Maybe, it's the first time to see a Telugu poem being featured here!
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What shapes can solidarities take in these times we live in? Join Wasafiri's editor and publishing director, @SansyG, for a conversation on connection and public and private revolutions at @edbookfest this summer.
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Friends in America, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories is now in your country. And in paperback, at that. bookshop.org/p/books/the-pen… or, if you absolutely must, here a.co/d/0iaJqYrJ
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In this essay, Deepa Bhasthi defends untranslatability, the intentional choice to not translate text, as a necessary practice.
Deepa's memoir-manifesto piece, titled 'Language is a Fuse Waiting to Be Lit', is available to read in Wasafiri 125.
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Calling all translators and publishers of South Asian literature! These two grant deadlines are coming up fast. Find more info here: englishpen.org/translation/c…
Congratulations to the winners of PEN Presents x SALT!
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