@ArmorySV Prize for South Asian Lit in Translation

A new literary prize from @ArmorySV for the translation of writing from South Asia. Submissions are now open for the 2025 Prize.

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🚨Deadline extended!🚨 To ensure that all qualified translators are able to submit their work for this year's prize, we are extending the deadline by two weeks. All submissions must be received by April 15.
Guidelines and submission form here: https://t.co/YFCnHQAwK5

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Get inspired to submit for this year's Armory Square Prize while you check out the previous years' shortlists on @wwborders.bsky.social. We're thrilled that every shortlisted writer's work is featured by Words Without Borders: https://t.co/gOPC5Wf8rK

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Time's running out to apply for this year's Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! See submission guidelines and apply here:
https://t.co/YFCnHQAwK5

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📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/Pt69mntwRS

[Kanishka Gupta @kan_writersside]

Huge congratulations to our brilliant author, Sana R. Chaudhry, for winning yet another important prize—the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature for her English translation of Fehmida Riaz's Urdu historical novel Qila-e-Faramoshi (Fortress of the Forgotten Ones)!

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

Congratulations to Wasafiri 115 contributor @sana_r_ch, winner of the the 2024 @ArmorySqPrize 🎉

[Sana R. Chaudhry @sana_r_ch]

Humbled with gratitude and joy for winning the Armory Square Prize 2024. Thank you for this opportunity @ArmorySqPrize
@jasongrunebaum @shreedaisy @arunava @pia_sawhney @sawadhussain Shahnaz Habib and Deena Chalabi

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We have a winner!🎉🎉
Congratulations to @sana_r_ch! Her translation of Fahmida Riaz's Fortress of the Forgotten Ones was chosen by our jury as the winner of the 2024 Armory Square Prize.
Read more: https://t.co/nwTwCy3k1u

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Meet the shortlist: Aditya Vikram!
Aditya (@kaalimirch_) is a writer, translator, and emerging literary scholar from Lucknow, India, whose translation of Mridula Garg's Sister, My Sister is shortlisted for the 2024 Armory Square Prize.
Read more: https://t.co/CluCZVsajz

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Join us!

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

📢HIMAL FICTION FEST 2024: Celebrating Southasian fiction in translation

Join us this Monday (10 June) for readings, the live announcement of this year's @ArmorySqPrize winner, and a panel discussion on the future of Southasian translation! https://t.co/piNDmuW200

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

✨Join us on Monday, 10 June, for a panel discussion on the future of Southasian fiction in translation, with prize-winning translators @shreedaisy, @microMAF, Jayasree Kalathil, and leading literary agent @kan_writersside.

Register for the event here:
https://t.co/piNDmuW200

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Join us and our friends at @Himalistan for readings, a panel discussion, and the live announcement of this year's winner!

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

📢HIMAL FICTION FEST 2024: Celebrating Southasian fiction in translation

Register here for our exciting launch event featuring readings by translators, the 2024 @ArmorySqPrize announcement, and a panel discussion on the future of Southasian translation: https://t.co/e65koeeZ84

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Meet the shortlist: Shivangi & Tejaswi!
Shivangi (@sheevaangi) is an English language journalist and an emerging literary translator. Tejaswi (@TejaswiRawal) is an English Language and Literature graduate from the University of Oxford.
Read more: https://t.co/YAp3PjAMtE

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Meet the shortlist: Aruni Kashyap!
Aruni writes in Assamese and English, and his translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair is shortlisted for the 2024 Armory Square Prize.
Read more about his work here: https://t.co/qCb7B1fwAu

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Meet the shortlist: Sayari Debnath!
Sayari (@pureheroinetwts) is a culture journalist whose translation of Mahua Sen Mukhopadhyay's short stories is shortlisted for the 2024 Armory Square Prize.
Read more about her work here: https://t.co/Mnn48Flgjg

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Meet the shortlist: Sana R. Chaudhry!
@sana_r_ch is a researcher, writer, translator, and educator whose translation of Fahmida Riaz's Fortress of the Forgotten Ones is shortlisted for the 2024 Armory Square Prize.

Read more about her work here: https://t.co/GEyZsJ5V7I

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Fact #1: To say literature from South Asia is underrepresented in English-language markets would be a serious understatement.
More on this and 5 Things to Know About the Armory Square Prize Shortlist: https://t.co/YW5mhiOjUh

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The 2024 Armory Square Prize shortlist reflects a wonderful crop of novels and short stories by South Asian women translated into English by truly talented writers.
The winner will be announced June 10.
More about the shortlist here: https://t.co/5ntpvNWIwY

[American Literary Translators Association @LitTranslate]

🎉 Have you seen? @ArmorySqPrize's 2024 shortlist has arrived! Congratulations to all the finalists, including ALTA member @AruniKashyap for their translation from Assamese of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's "Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair"! https://t.co/GDedSRyIDz

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2024 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Fortress of the Forgotten Ones by Fahmida Riaz, translated by @sana_r_ch

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📣Announcing the 2024 Armory Square Prize shortlist!
The jury was blown away by all of this year's entries, but five works stood above the rest. 🧵
Stay tuned: The winner will be announced June 10.

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2024 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: "The Well-Wisher" from an untitled short story collection by Mahua Sen Mukhopdhyay, translated by @pureheroinetwts