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Ranjit Hoskote

@ranjithoskote.bsky.social

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Poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. Author: The Homeland's an Ocean (2024); Icelight (2023); Hunchprose (2021); Jonahwhale (2018); Central Time (2014); I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011); Vanishing Acts (2006). Alumnus @uiiwp & BAK Utrecht.

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Tess Lewis @tesslewis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In my new bimonthly column @theartsfuse.bsky.social, I'll shine a spotlight on exceptional translations. My first column lights up with translations/adaptations/riffs/homages by @ranjithoskote.bsky.social, Robert Chandler & Douglas Penick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com link in comment

Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations - The Arts Fuse

One of translation’s greatest powers -- its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language and set of conventions and transplant it into another -- is a delicate pro...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

@ranjithoskote.bsky.social explores the interplay between written, oral and corporal expression in South Asian literature.

What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

While Ten Indian Classics features eight—or, as the voice in my head insists, nine—of South Asia’s languages, it invites the reader to engage with the region in its multilingual plenitude, its many…