HMM: Study: Medieval British friars had more intestinal worms than general population.
Grove Atlantic Q & A
At Edelweiss Gabriella Costa has an Interview with a Publisher: Grove Atlantic on Publishing Literature in Translation, with responses from Peter Blackstock, Amy Hundley, and Katie Raissian.
Grove Atlantic of course publishes a wide variety of interesting literature in translation.
David Davidar Q & A
David Davidar has a new anthology coming out, A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country's Finest New Writers, and at Scroll.in Sayari Debnath has a Q & A with him, Publisher David Davidar on why young writers make him hopeful about Indian fiction in English.
He also addresses translation:
I’m delighted by the burgeoning interest in translations by readers, publishers, and the executors of literary prizes, but it’s nowhere near enough. We need generous funding by corporates with cultural leanings to support Indian literature created in languages other than English as also translation projects that will make work in these languages available to readers in English and languages other than those in which the work was originally created.I'm not so sure about hoping for/relying on "big industry" for financial support, however .....
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