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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Knight

New project seeks to bring south Asian literature to western readers

Daisy Rockwell and Geetanjali Shree, winners of the  2022 International Booker prize for Tomb of Sand.
Daisy Rockwell and Geetanjali Shree, winners of the 2022 International Booker prize for Tomb of Sand. Photograph: David Parry/PA

A new project to help bring the “extraordinarily rich” literature of south Asia to English-speaking countries will launch this summer, it has been announced.

The cross-continental South Asian Literature in Translation (Salt) project has been set up by the University of Chicago, in partnership with the American Literary Translators Association, English PEN, Words Without Borders and the British Council. The multi-year project will try to “strengthen each part of the publishing chain across the English-speaking world”, the University of Chicago has said.

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