If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

—Mark Strand

Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories in Foyles, London
.cc Arunava Sinha

#Books | Given the rigidity of their institutional settings, both 'Hospital' and 'What Kingdom' exist in insular spaces.

Maya Palit on the clinic in contemporary fiction.
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It’s been two weeks since ‘The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories’ was listed on Amazon India. The world’s biggest online retailer has been unable to solve a glitch that makes buying the book impossible on its website in India. All that tech - and yet they can’t fix it. Wow.

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist, featuring six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2024

How does the act of translation make, mix up, and unmake identity?

Award-winning translator Anton Hur grasps at the shapeshifting boundary between him and his author as he submerges himself in her work and finds her identity in himself: tinyurl.com/29v9yusv

Two poems by the one and only Binoy Majumdar in my translation on WordsWithoutBorders today. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

On behalf of the Rama Mehta Trust, calling women Urdu writers with any connection to Rajasthan … please submit a short story on the theme “We have not long to love”. Award of Rs 25,000 to the winning entry.
You need to be a woman writer with some connection to Rajasthan

My first book of translation – Keeper of Desolation by Chandan – is now available for pre-orders on Amazon. (amzn.in/d/fOIKlkg)!

It'll arrive at your favourite bookshops in a few days. I hope you'll get your copy from there.

PS. A sneak peek of what you'll be reading!

In FT Weekend today, my musings on the Bengali short story and the paradox of empire ft.com/content/c3b859…
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories ed. Arunava Sinha out from Penguin Classics

Btw anthology means bouquet but in Bengali we call such collections a 'mala', or garland!

Happy 11th birthday Deep Vellum! The period of the corporation's duration is perpetual! #LiteraryDallas forever!

Reviewed on Scroll.in: Namita Gokhale’s new novel.

Actor Safia Arain performs a scene from Stella-shortlisted novel ‘Hospital’ by Sanya Rushdi. Translated from the Bengali.

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Over in Australia, Sanya Rushdi's 'Hospital' is on the shortlist of Stella! Published by Giramondo Publishing there, and by Seagull Books سیگل in India, the UK, and the USA.

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So many fantastic books are impossible to find because it’s not worth the publishers’ while to print more copies. There’s something so wrong with a system that won’t let great books be read.

'The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories': তানজিল রশীদ has some insightful observations over at Financial Times ft.com/content/c3b859…

Folks, if you wish to get a copy of the book, WhatsApp us on +91 93310 51191 and for international shipping please write to us at [email protected]

🚨Deadline has been extended!🚨
There is one more week to submit applications for the 2024 Armory Square Prize - we'll be accepting submissions through April 8.

I caught up with one of my favourite writers, Jayant Kaikini, to talk about the radical empathy of his fiction, the poetry of everyday objects – and what his mother thought of his stories.

In Scroll.in

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Hoping to see you at 6 pm at The Bookshop Inc today, Delhi-NCR friends. Translation adda and of course some great books to buy. Please register here forms.gle/7zsesM6xNKMxPC…