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Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and creative writing instructor. Her latest book is a literary translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu. More here: https://jennybhattwriter.com/bio.

HFCN #06: What I’ve Learned From Teaching 8+ Historical Fiction Workshops

Aug 04, 2023 10 Comments

A reflection on my own learnings from teaching historical fiction workshops, and some thoughts about persistent trends in the genre.

WAAT #65: How Literary Translators Select Their Works (Part I)

Jul 28, 2023 2 Comments

A new five-part series on how literary translators select their works and a few other quick literary updates.

HFCN #05: Notes on Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Jul 21, 2023 4 Comments

A close read of a scene from Peter Carey’s Booker-winning historical novel, Oscar and Lucinda, and some other literary updates.

WAAT #64: On Starting a Ph.D. at 50

Apr 28, 2023 8 Comments

This fall, I will start a Ph.D. program in Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas in Dallas, Texas. Here are some thoughts about the whys and wherefores.

HFCN #04: How We Might Approach Reading Historical Fiction

Apr 21, 2023 2 Comments

An exploration of three reader expectations to help us become more discerning readers and more skillful writers of historical fiction. Shoutouts to these writers: Northrop Frye, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, A. S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Tony Kushner, Umberto Eco, William Weaver (translator), and Walter Scott.

WAAT #63: Fathima E. V. and Nandakumar K. Discuss Various Aspects of Translator Collaboration in WAAT Session 03

Apr 14, 2023 No Comments

In the latest WAAT session, I talked with two Malayalam-to-English translators about their collaboration approaches for the 2021 JCB Literature Prize-winning novel, Delhi: A Soliloquy, by M. Mukundan.

WAAT #62: A Literary Translation Links Roundup

Mar 21, 2023 2 Comments

A monthly links roundup of recent essays, interviews, submission calls, and upcoming events exploring topics related to literary translation from around the world and across the publishing ecosystem.

WAAT #61: Crafting Neologisms in Literary Translation

Mar 14, 2023 2 Comments

Whether we’re crafting translations of authorial neologisms or coining our own neologisms, they require innovative creativity to be easily understood and fit seamlessly into the target language.

HFCN #03: Discovering both “Know-Why” and “Know-How” in Historical Fiction

Mar 07, 2023 4 Comments

On imaginatively interpreting “why” things happened as they did along with “how” they happened in our historical fiction. Book recommendations: Martin Puchner. George Eliot, Jerome de Groot, Richard Cohen, Ashutosh Mehndiratta, Michael Ondaatje, and Maggie O’Farrell. And a reading and writing exercise.

WAAT #60: Literary Translation Trivia Quiz

Feb 28, 2023 2 Comments

If you appreciate the discipline of literary translation and enjoy the process of collecting trivia facts, this brief, fun quiz combines both of those knowledge bases.

WAAT #59: Stepping Through the Twelve Levels of Literary Translation

Feb 21, 2023 7 Comments

Here’s a potential twelve-level framework for cultivating and maintaining a personal discipline of literary translation. With a hat tip to the scholar who shared the twelve levels of friendship in Arabic on Twitter.

WAAT #58: A Literary Translation Links Roundup

Feb 14, 2023 2 Comments

A links roundup of ten recent essays and interviews exploring literary translation works from around the world and across the publishing ecosystem.

Jenny Bhatt is an author, a literary translator, and a book critic. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student of literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has taught creative writing at Writing Workshops Dallas and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship Program. Sign up for her free newsletters, We Are All Translators and/or Historical Fiction Craft Notes. Jenny lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. (Photo Credit: Pixel Voyage Photography / Arushi Gupta)

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