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Gitanjali Patel

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Gitanjali Patel

Gitanjali Patel is a translator and social researcher. She graduated from Oxford University in Spanish and Portuguese and has been translating from these languages since 2010. She translates in a range of media, from film scripts and radio programs to fiction, including stories by Luisa Geisler, Miriam Mambrini, Fernanda Torres, and Evando Nascimento. In 2016 she co-founded Shadow Heroes, an organization that runs a series of creative workshops that use translation as a means to teach critical thinking skills to secondary school students. She has a master’s degree in social anthropology from SOAS, University of London, and has used translation for several social research projects, including studies on the language of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, and the emergence of favela community museums, a project that won the Jon M. Tolman Award at the BRASA XIV Congress.

Articles by Gitanjali Patel

Against the “Good” Translation: The Power of Disobedience
By Gitanjali Patel & Jessie Spivey
Today on WWB Daily, Gitanjali Patel and Jessie Spivey of Shadow Heroes, an organization that runs creative translation workshops for students, take on the myth of the “good” translation. Deconstructing…
The Bad Gardener
By Evando Nascimento
Il y a des natures purement contemplatives et tout à fait impropres à l’action, qui cependant, sous une impulsion mystérieuse et inconnue, agissent quelquefois avec une rapidité…
Translated by Gitanjali Patel