Author Perumal Murugan And Translator N Kalyan Raman On The Act Of Literary Translation

The 2020 JCB Prize for Literature longlisted author Megha Majumdar wrote in her fantastic debut novel, A Burning, “What words can do? Not very much.” But it’s that very powerful sentence that makes it achieve “very much” across the literary landscape it has entered. However, A Burning — a reality of a sort of contemporary India — is not the only work to celebrate. There are two others, too:

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