Inaugural NIF translation fellowships for 3 books announced
Three books in Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, are to be translated under the inaugural NIF translation fellowships.
The New India Foundation (NIF) on Thursday announced three awardees of its inaugural translation fellowships, chosen from across 10 Indian languages for research and translation of three historically significant non-fiction texts originally published in Bengali, Kannada and Marathi to English (Photo: Pexels) The New India Foundation (NIF) on Thursday announced three awardees of its inaugural translation fellowships, chosen from across 10 Indian languages for research and translation of three historically significant non-fiction texts originally published in Bengali, Kannada and Marathi to English.
Awarded for a period of six months with a stipend of Rs 6 lakh to each recipient or team, the NIF translation fellowships offer an opportunity for direct mentorship under a language expert committee and NIF trustees, apart from providing financial, editorial, legal, and publishing support.
The three awardees are Venkateswar Ramaswamy (literary translator) and Amlan Biswas (statistician) to translate Nirmal Kumar’s “Diaries 1946-47” from Bengali; N S Gundur (academician and literary historian) to translate D R Nagaraj’s “Allamaprabhu Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe” from Kannada; and Rahul Sarwate (academician and historian) to translate Sharad Patil’s “Marxvad: Phule-Ambedkarvaad” from Marathi.
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