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PhD student Naomi Harris publishes three new Hittite poems in The Paris Review
“The Moon that fell from heaven”—a story first inscribed on clay tablets in the fourteenth century BCE—begins with a celestial accident: the Moon tumb...
A Generous Gift Expands the Reach of Translation Studies
By María Carrasquilla
The literary translation that has long flourished at UChicago is now being recognized and expanded. In UChicago’s Humanities ...
UChicago to Expand English-Language Translation of South Asian Literature
By Sara Patterson
Less than 1 percent of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years comes from a South Asian language w...
Do they say “dude” in India?
Daisy Rockwell, winner of the International Booker Prize, on the subtleties of literary translationEarly in her graduate studies in South Asian Langua...
Two Perspectives on Translation
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Translation is often the closest way to read a text. Two scholars discuss the process, its pitfalls, and ultimately its payoffs.Jason Grunebaum is sen...
A Lifetime Fascination
David Tod Roy finishes his translation of a once-banned Chinese classic.
Crowning nearly 50 years of scholarship, David Tod Roy, professor emeritus i...