SALT is a multi-year project based at @UChicago to support and promote South Asian Literature in English Translation

Joined March 2023
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…
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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…
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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! literarytranslators.org/awar…
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A great opportunity for translators from the languages of Bangladesh into English! Applications are due September 15th!
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SALT: South Asian Literature in Translation retweeted
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
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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…
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SALT: South Asian Literature in Translation retweeted
We are thrilled to announce Pakistani translator and writer Haider Shahbaz as Wasafiri's newest International Translator in Residence, in partnership with @SALTatChicago! buff.ly/Ow2dXtl
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Congratulations to former SALT mentee Rohee Dholakia for her recently published translations from the Gujarati of Akha Bhagat in The Antonym Online! theantonymmag.com/akhana-chh…
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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. buff.ly/V33UI9N
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SALT: South Asian Literature in Translation retweeted
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. buff.ly/lS11LRS
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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…
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