The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior Landscape, ...

The Tamil translation of French author and Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux’s ‘Une femme’ has been awarded the 8th edition of the ...

Professor Archana Venkatesan and her prize-winning translation, “Endless Song.” (Courtesy) With [this volume] Venkatesan has clearly become the leading English interpreter of early Tamil Vaishnava ...

SR Kichenamourty on winning the Romain Rolland Book Prize for translating Ernaux’s Une Femme from the French into Tamil PREMIUM SR Kichenamourty who won the Romain Rolland award this year for ...

SINGAPORE - An English-Tamil glossary, the first of its kind with more than 4,000 common English terms and their corresponding Tamil terms, was launched on Saturday (Feb 3) by Senior Minister of State ...

Of the five novels shortlisted for the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, two were translations, and one, Benyamin’s Jasmine Days, was the winner. The other was Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi: Or The ...

Chennai: From biographies of famous personalities such as poet Subramania Bharati to ethical texts like Naladiyar and Nanmanikadigai, as many as 500 Tamil books will soon be available in English. The ...

Tamil achieved the distinction of being the first South Asian language to have the Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, which is treated as a Bible by medical students worldwide. Another ...

Chennai: Google translates the Tamil sentence ‘oru paati vadai suttu vitru vandhar’ as ‘one grandmother was shot dead in a town’, when it should be ‘a grandmother made vada (a snack) and was selling ...