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Jameela Nishat to visit Germany poetry fest
A group of 10 Indian poets will travel to Germany as part of a unique initiative \'Poets Translating Poets\' as part of a two-year long literary project of Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. These 10 Indians will be joined by poets from Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
A group of 10 Indian poets will travel to Germany as part of a unique initiative 'Poets Translating Poets' as part of a two-year long literary project of Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. These 10 Indians will be joined by poets from Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
They are: Jameela Nishat (Urdu), Harish Meenashru (Gujarati), Sumanta Mukhopadhyay and Yashodhara Ray Choudhari (both Bengali), Lalnunsanga Ralte (Mizo), Shafi Shauq and Naseem Shafaie (Kashmiri), Sukirtharani (Tamil), Aruna Dhere (Marathi) and Sridala Swami (English).
They will be joined by a Tamil language poet from Sri Lanka, Somasundrampillai 'Soma' Pathmanathan, and Pakistan's Afzal Ahmed Syed (Urdu) and Amar Sindhu (Sindhi). "Contemporary poetry from India, Pakistan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has been translated into German, and German poetry was similarly translated into 20 languages across South Asia during the course of the two-year long project, aimed to stimulate new literary networks and open new avenues for trans-cultural understanding," said Martin Walde, Director of Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan.
The 'Poets Translating Poets' project was initiated in October 2014 by the Mumbai institute along with its counterparts in South Asia, in collaboration with Literaturwerkstaff, Berlin and Haus fur Poesie to create a platform for poets from South Asia and Germany to translate each other's works, he added.
The German poets involved are: Andreas Altmann, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Christian Filips, Barbara Kohler, Jan Wagner, Thomas Kunst, Sylvia Geist, Nicolai Kobus, Tom Schultz, Gerhard Falkner, Ulrike Draesner and Anja Utler, for the various languages.
These poets have held 'translation encounters' with their German counterparts between July 2015-April 2016, and started presenting their works across Germany at the Poetry Festival from June this year, followed by the upcoming six-week long interaction for German audiences.
Besides Berlin, the literary events are planned at Munchen, Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Kassel, Bremen, Tubingen and Munchen-Pasing.
