How Do We Treat Translation as Creative Writing?

In Conversation

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  Madhu H. Kaza

  Madhu H. Kaza

  Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist and educator based in New York City. She is a translator of the feminist Telugu writers Volga and Vimala. Political Stories, her co-translation of a collection of Vimala’s fiction, was published in 2007 in India; other translations and original writing have appeared in Gulf Coast, Guernica, Waxwing, Chimurenga, The Encyclopedia Project, Two Lines, and more. She recently edited Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores the connections between migration and translation and which features immigrant, diasporic, and POC translators. She was the founding director of the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library and currently serves as Faculty Advisor to the program. She also teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.

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  Jeremy Tiang

  Jeremy Tiang

  Jeremy Tiang has translated novels by Yan Ge, Zhang Yueran, Chan Ho-Kei, Yeng Pway Ngon, Su Wei-Chen, Geling Yan and Li Er, among others. He also writes and translates plays. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018.