Two Month Review, from our friends @openletterbooks.bsky.social, spent the summer reading jury member @shreedaisy.bsky.social's translation of Tomb of Sand.
Jury chair @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social & prize founder Pia Sawhney came by these episodes to chat all things translation. Give them a listen!

Opportunity alert! Our friends @southasiaspeaks.bsky.social are accepting applications for their fellowship program now through Sept. 30 from emerging translators living in South Asia.
Learn more & apply here: www.southasiaspeaks.org/fellowship/. Good luck to all!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Ciara Mandulee Mendis. A Sri Lankan writer who has won multiple awards, including the State Literary Award, her work appears in several international journals. She translates into and out of both Sinhala and English. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Subhashree Beeman. A translator working from Tamil and French into English, she is winner of the 2024 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and 2024 SALT/ALTA Emerging Literary Translation Mentorship. Her entry earned Special Mention from our jury. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Sumathy Sivamohan. She is Professor in English at the University of Peradeniya and an acclaimed film maker, dramatist, performer, poet and translator. In 2011, she received the Premchand Fellowship from the Sahithya Akademi of India. Congrats!

Meet 2025 Armory Square Prize shortlist translator Punarvasu Joshi. A nanotechnology researcher turned translator, he has translated 40 Hindi short stories for a 2-volume anthology titled ‘A Journey In Time.' His recent translation is the novel ‘The Madhouse,’ which came out in January. Congrats!

The video of our live shortlist readings & winner announcement is online now from @himalmag.bsky.social! Come for the engaging panel discussion on Caste, Gender and Resistance in Southasian Speculative Fiction, stay for five incredible pieces of translation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghi6...

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: To Each Their Own Hell by Akhtar Mohiuddin, translated by Mehdi Khawaja

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Saigon Puducherry by Nagarathinam Krishna, translated by Subhashree Beeman

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Moumin or The Believer and Other Stories by Shobasakthi, translated by Sumathy Sivamohan

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Grandmothers, Granddaughters and Other Women by Kumudu Kumarasinghe, translated by Ciara Mendis

Get to know the 2025 Armory Square Prize Shortlist: Badalta Hua Desh by Manoj Kumar Pandey, translated by Punarvusu Joshi

Our 2025 shortlist and winner were announced this morning during a joint livestream event with our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social! Our thanks to the folks at Himal and to our five finalists for sharing their work and time with us.
Meet the full shortlist here: www.armorysv.com/2025-prize-w...

Congratulations to Mehdi Khawaja, winner of this year's Armory Square Prize! His translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin's To Each Their Own Hell was chosen by our jury as this year's top entry in a very impressive field of translated works.

Save the date! We'll be joining our friends at @himalmag.bsky.social on 6/16 to announce the 2025 Armory Square Prize winner during this engaging Fiction Fest event.
Join us for the panel, readings from our 5 finalists and the live announcement of our winner! RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A finalist for the @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q

In this @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social -shortlisted story by Abha Purbey (translated from Angika Tejaswi Rawal & Shivangi Pandey), the manager of a farm finds the stress of his life intolerable. Read “A Working Man”: buff.ly/HTh0SMd

Time's almost up! Just 4 days remain to submit for the 2025 Armory Square Prize, open to translators working with any South Asian language.

See guidelines and submit here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...

🚨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 end of day on April 15.
Guidelines and submission form here: www.armorysv.com/translation-...

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: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

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: www.armorysv.com/translation-...

2024 Prize shortlisted translator Aditya Vikram Shrivastava is on @wwborders.bsky.social this week!

Submissions for the 2025 Prize are now open - see guidelines and more info at the link in bio.

Writers and translators: submissions to the Armory Square Prize are now open! Don't forget to submit (and to check out past Armory Square winners and finalists on WWB, of course).

📢 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: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...