{"id":53949,"date":"2023-03-31T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/mar\/30\/new-project-seeks-to-bring-south-asian-literature-to-western-readers"},"modified":"2023-03-31T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:00:26","slug":"new-project-seeks-to-bring-south-asian-literature-to-western-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53949","title":{"rendered":"New project seeks to bring south Asian literature to western readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by two translators \u2013 one American, one British \u2013 the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation school<\/p>\n<p>A new project to help bring the \u201cextraordinarily rich\u201d literature of south Asia to English-speaking countries will launch this summer, it has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-continental <a href=\"https:\/\/salc.uchicago.edu\/salt-project\">South Asian Literature in Translation<\/a> (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 \u201cstrengthen each part of the publishing chain across the English-speaking world\u201d, the University of Chicago has said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/mar\/30\/new-project-seeks-to-bring-south-asian-literature-to-western-readers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by two translators \u2013 one American, one British \u2013 the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation schoolA new project to help bring the \u201cextraordinarily rich\u201d literature of south Asia to Englis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[453,511,71,1041,62,1642,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-culture","category-fiction","category-india","category-publishing","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53949\/revisions\/53950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}