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Jenny Bhatt

Portrait of translator Jenny Bhatt

Contributor

Jenny Bhatt

United States

Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the founder of Desi Books, a global multimedia forum for South Asian literature.

Articles by Jenny Bhatt

A boat on the coast of Gujarat at sunset

Photo by Pandav Tank on Unsplash

Translating Gujarat: On Raising Visibility and Sharing Literary Wealth

For translators from under-represented languages like ours, the act of translation can also be a mode of recovery and reclamation.

Portrait of Dr. Sachin Ketkar

Into English: Sachin Ketkar on Bilingual Translation

Translation is an extension of my preoccupations as a creative writer.

Multimedia

Portrait of Dr. Tridip Suhrud

On Gandhi, Translation, and the Gujarati Intellectual Tradition

Gandhi was a very close reader of languages and literatures.

Jenny Bhatt (left) and Rita Kothari (right)

On the Evolution and Craft of Gujarati Literature in Translation

We do not see translations of books that will unsettle the reading community, and provoke them to be different than who they want to be.

Photo of a school framed by two trees

Snehrashmi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Crossroad

By Varsha Adalja

“Shame on you, boys. Dullards. A girl has outdone you all.”

Translated from Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt

Multimedia