Archives for Topic: Gujarati

WAAT #55: Translating Motifs in Literary Works

Jan 23, 2023 6 Comments

When a word recurs as an important theme-driven motif in a story and is intentionally left untranslated, it can draw the reader’s attention and make them even more alert and attuned to its various, complex meanings. And a few interesting links at the end.

WAAT #39: On Anachronisms in Literary Translation

Sep 30, 2022 3 Comments

Every day is International Translation Day at ‘We Are All Translators’ but Happy International Translation Day to you all. Let’s consider the cases for and against literary anachronisms (and archaisms) in translation, shall we?

WAAT #38: Your favorite translated book that deserves more attention?

Sep 23, 2022 2 Comments

Please share your favorite translated work that isn’t as well-known as it should be and deserves more attention.

WAAT #36: What a Literary Translator Brings to the Text

Sep 09, 2022 1 Comment

Can reading around a text—contextualizing it and developing a relationship with it—help us translate it better?

WAAT #32: Salman Rushdie on Literary Translation

Aug 12, 2022 No Comments

Salman Rushdie believes we’re living in one of the great ages of literary translation, yet we will always need more world literature read in America, and why the Gujarati language and literature are under-represented and endangered.

WAAT #31: For Whom (or Why) Do We Translate?

Aug 05, 2022 No Comments

Every translator’s origin story is unique and personal and involves a great deal of happenstance and serendipity (as Mark Polizzotti has written.)

WAAT #14: Onomatopoeic Words Should Be the Easiest to Translate But . . .

Apr 08, 2022 No Comments

NOTE: This newsletter is in PDF format because I was using a different service provider. It will be converted to a more user-friendly text format as time allows. Thank you for your patience. ~Jenny Bhatt.

WAAT #06: Words That Carry Entire Histories and Ways of Being Within Them

Feb 11, 2022 No Comments

Earlier this week, I asked about favorite words in different languages on Twitter and got some lovely responses. I’ll share a few more briefly, although I could write entire essays about each. For me, they contain entire histories and ways of being within them.

WAAT #01: First Words: Welcome and Thank You

Jan 07, 2022 No Comments

Where this newsletter’s title originated and what you can expect from this new weekly newsletter.

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.

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