Bengaluru Apr 21 PTI The New India Foundation NIF on Thursday announced three awardees of its inaugural translation fellowships chosen from across 10 Indian languages for research and translation of three historically significant non-fiction texts originally published in Bengali Kannada and Marathi to EnglishAwarded for a period of six months with a stipend of Rs 6 lakh to each recipient or team the NIF translation fellowships offer an opportunity for direct mentorship under a language expert committee and NIF trustees apart from providing financial editorial legal and publishing supportThe three awardees are Venkateswar Ramaswamy literary translator and Amlan Biswas statistician to translate Nirmal Kumars Diaries 1946-47 from Bengali N S Gundur academician and literary historian to translate D R Nagarajs Allamaprabhu Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe from Kannada and Rahul Sarwate academician and historian to translate Sharad Patils Marxvad Phule-Ambedkarvaad from MarathiInstituted to promote non-fiction translations from various Indian languages to English the fellowships are envisioned to create an expansive cultural reach for works which have thus far been confined to those who understand the original language of their compositionThere are no constraints on genre style nationality of the translator or ideology of the material chosen for the fellowships as long as they are published after 1850 and illuminate the development of modern and contemporary IndiaThe jury for these fellowships included NIF Trustees Niraja Gopal Jayal Srinath Raghavan Manish Sabharwal alongside the language expert committee in all 10 languages comprising Kuladhar Saikia Assamese Ipshita Chanda Bengali Tridip Suhrud Gujarati Harish Trivedi Hindi Vivek Shanbhag Kannada Rajan Gurukkal Malayalam Suhas Palshikar Marathi Jatin Nayak Odia AR Venkatachalapathy Tamil Ayesha Kidwai and Rana Safvi UrduJayal said the three selected books span the genres of personal memoir philosophical dialogue and critical theory and each of them is a fine contribution to the rich intellectual tradition in the respective languages PTI ZMN RDS RDS

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