Kolkata's Seagull Books has changed what and how translated world literature comes Indian readers
Brave new world: Naveen Kishore at Seagull Books. | Photo Credit: Gurmehar Kaur In a scenario where U.K. or U.S. publishers almost exclusively decide which translated books the Third World gets to read, Kolkata-based Seagull Books bucks the trend by commissioning translations directly for both local and global markets The politics of translation has been brilliantly excavated in recent decades by theorists ranging from Walter Benjamin to Gayatri Spivak. More quantitative studies also exist, indicating how translation flows in certain directions: for instance, from English to other languag...
Source: thehindu.com