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Welcome to Harshaneeyam Podcast. Today I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Vashalice Kaaba, a brilliant scholar, librarian, grant writer, and the Executive Director of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. With a Ph. D. from Florida State University and a career helping social impact organizations secure more than $10 million in funding, her work beautifully blends literacy, cultural access, and...

My guest for today is Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma — an American writer, poet, and translator who has spent more than two decades of his life inside the Tamil language. Thomas first arrived in Madurai in 1998, almost by accident, planning to study Spanish and ecological ethics, and instead found himself apprenticed to a remarkable teacher, Dr. K. V. Ramakoti. That apprenticeship reshaped his entire lif...

Today on Harshaneeyam podcast we are thrilled to speak with author Ann Morgan about her new book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing . While many books about reading focus on comfort and coziness, Ann’s latest work takes a refreshing, different approach. The book is built on the realization that if we want to truly read widely, we must first make friends with our own incomprehension. An...

What does it take to carry Shakespeare across languages — not just his plots and his characters, but the very heartbeat of his verse? Today I'm speaking with Daniel Hahn, one of the most celebrated literary translators working today. With several works to his credit, he has translated fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and plays from across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He is the recipient...

"Welcome to Harshaneeyam Podcast. Today, we enter the intricate, wickedly humorous, and deeply observant world of Swedish author Ia Genberg . Joining us is the acclaimed translator Kira Josefsson , whose English translation of the short story collection - Small Comfort , has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 . Kira is no stranger to Genberg’s sharp prose; she also translated...

"Welcome to Harshaneeyam. Today, we delve into a powerful work of Bulgarian literature that has recently made its way to the 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist : 'She Who Remains' by Renée Karbash . The novel explores the life of a 'sworn virgin'—a woman who, according to an ancient Balkan tradition, takes a vow of celibacy and lives as a man to gain the rights and status reserved for men i...

"Welcome to Harshaneeyam! "Can a work of art ever truly be washed clean of the hands that funded it? Is it possible to create a masterpiece in the shadow of a monster? Today, we are exploring these haunting questions through the lens of The Director —the latest novel by the brilliant German author Daniel Kehlmann. Set against the harrowing backdrop of the late 1930s and 1940s, the story follows th...

In this episode, Harshaneeyam Host Anil sits down with Sruthi , a long-time listener of the show, to talk about the launch of the website, harshaneeyam.com . They discuss what’s coming next for the podcast and explore how the site serves as a complete library for all episodes. Now, it is easy to find favorite shows by category, leave detailed reviews, and sign up for the newsletter to stay updated...

Guest for this Episode is Writer, Translator Lin King - Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland , among others, and has received the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations include the graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin. Her debut novel, Weeb , i...

In this episode we have with us Padma Viswanathan. Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American writer and translator. Her novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and others. She has published short fiction, essays and translations in Granta , The Boston Review , BRICK , and elsewhere. Full-length translations include São Bernar...

Today we have David Mckay on Harshaneeyam Podcast. Born and educated in the United States, David McKay is an award-winning translator of Dutch fiction and non-fiction He holds degrees in philosophy, linguistics and international relations, and has lived in and around The Hague since 1997. His literary translations include War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans , which was longlisted for the Interna...

Today's Guest on Harshaneeyam is Ruth Martin. Ruth Martin studied English literature before gaining a PhD in German She has been translating fiction and non-fiction books since 2010, by authors ranging from Joseph Roth and Hannah Arendt to Volker Weidermann and Shida Bazyar. She has taught translation at the University of Kent and the Bristol Translates summer school, and is a former co-chair of t...

Our guest for today is Jordan Stump. Jordan Stump has translated many authors into English from French, including Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Honoré de Balzac His translation of Jardin des Plantes by Claude Simon won the 2001 French-American Foundation translation prize, and was named a Chevalier (Knight) in the Order of Arts and Letters for his work by the French government 2006. His Eng...

Today’s Guest, Charlotte Mandell has translated over 50 books of fiction, poetry and philosophy from French. Her translations include works by Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, Abdelwahab Meddeb and Jean-Luc Nancy. Her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2017 and was the recipient of the 2018 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose. She was na...

Today's Guest, Antonella Lettieri is a translator working between English and Italian. Her translations include Maria Grazia Calandrone’s Your Little Matter (Foundry Editions, 2024), Roberta Recchia’s All That Is Left of Life (Dialogue Books, 2025), and Matteo Melchiorre’s The Duke (Foundry Editions, 2025), which is currently longlisted for the International Booker Prize . She was the National Cen...

Today we have Suchitra Ramachandran with us to discuss her newly translated novel, The Daughter of Kumari . We will also explore her experience translating the works of Jeyamohan and the first-ever Tamil Literary Festival to be held outside India, which is coming up in April 2026 in New York. Originally written in Tamil as Kumari Thuraivi by the writer Jeyamohan, this novel tells the story of brin...

In this Episode, Mark Hutchinson talks about his journey of translation and about the novel ‘ A leopard Skin hat’ written by Anne Serre. Mark Hutchinson was born in London and lives in Paris Among his many translations from the French are René Char’s Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance and The Inventors and Other Poems, and Emmanuel Hocquard’s The Library at Trieste and The Gardens of Sallust...

Today we are talking with Gaea Schoeters about her novel, Trofee . Gaea is one of the prominent voices of Flemish literature; she is a versatile creator who writes novels, screenplays, and operas. One of her first published works was Girls, Muslims and Motorcycles , in which she shared the story of her seven-month journey through Iran and Central Asia. Her novel Trofee (Trophy) has become a huge s...

ఈ ఎపిసోడ్ లో 'వలస' నవల గురించి రచయిత్రి సుస్మిత గారితో సునీత రత్నాకరం గారు మాట్లాడతారు. సుస్మిత గారు పుట్టింది విజయనగరంలో , ప్రస్తుత నివాసం అమెరికాలో . తెలుగులో బ్లాగులు చాలాకాలం నించి రాస్తున్నారు. మంచి వెన్నెల వేళ, గాలి సంకెళ్ళు అనే నవలలు రాశారు. అడపాదడపా కథలు కూడా రాస్తూంటారు. సునీతా రత్నాకరం గారు ఇండియన్ ఇన్స్టిట్యూట్ అఫ్ మానేజ్మెంట్ లక్నో లో పీహెచ్డీ చేశారు. ప్రస్తుతం జిందాల్ గ్లోబల్ యూనివర్స...

పుస్తక ప్రేమికుల కోసం ఛాయా రిసోర్సెస్ సెంటర్ ఆధ్వర్యంలో ఛాయ సాహిత్యోత్సవం ఈ నెల అక్టోబర్ ఇరవై ఐదో తేదీ శనివారాన హైదరాబాద్‌లో జరుగుతోంది. పుస్తక ఆవిష్కరణలు, బుక్ స్టాల్ల్స్, రచయితలతో ముఖాముఖి, రెండు వేదికల మీద పుస్తకాల గురించి చర్చలు ఈ ఉత్సవంలో భాగంగా నిర్వహిస్తున్నారు. ఈ ఉత్సవం జూబిలీ హిల్స్ రోడ్డు నంబరు 46లోని అంబేద్కర్ ఓపెన్ యూనివర్సిటీలో జరుగుతుంది.  ఇప్పుడు మనతో ఈ ఎపిసోడ్ లో ఛాయ డైరెక్టర్...

Today we have Jason Grunebaum speaking to us about his stint with the Redcross, Hindi to English translations and the salt project.   Jason is an Instructional Professor at the university of Chicago teaching Hindi and Translation.   He is also the co-director for The SALT Project which supports and promotes English-language translations of literature written in t...

ఇటీవల, అంటే 2025 జూలైలో విడుదలైన తెలుగు నవల నువ్వు లేని అద్దం. ఈ నవలను మెహెర్ రాశారు. మెహెర్దా దాపు ఇరవై ఏళ్ళుగా తెలుగు సాహిత్యలోకంలో అందరికీ పరిచయమైన పేరు. ఈయన కథకుడిగా అనువాదకుడిగా, నవలా రచియతగా, ఎడిటర్ గా తనదైన స్థానాన్ని సొంతం చేసుకున్నాడు. ఈ ఎపిసోడ్‌లో మనం నువ్వు లేని అద్దం నవల గురించి అనువాదకులు అవినేని భాస్కర్ అడిగిన ప్రశ్నలకు మెహెర్ జవాబులిచ్చారు. అంతే కాకుండా తన రచనా దృక్పథం గురించికుడా చ...

'Tella Enugu' is a Telugu translation of the novel 'Vellai Yaanai' originally written in Tamil by writer Jeyamohan. The novel is of historical fiction based on certain true incidents during the British Raj of Late 19th Century. In this conversation Jeyamohan talked about the back drop of the novel, the situation of Dalits in those days, How the British Raj used the caste system to exploit and rule...

Today we have Satish Chapparike speaking about the second edition of Book Brahma Literature Festival, to be held in Bangalore from 8th to 10th August, 2025." Satish Chapparike is a bilingual writer, accomplished journalist, and the founder-director of the Book Brahma Literature Festival—a premier literary event that celebrates the richness and diversity of Indian languages and voices. As a festiva...