'No Presents Please' wins American translation award
The Hindu
Tejaswini Niranjana had translated the original Kannada short stories collection written by Jayant Kaikini to English
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories, a collection of short stories by Jayant Kaikini translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, has won American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award for 2021 for prose.
The judges have said that the collection “deserves all the presents for its intimate and life-affirming portrayal of ordinary people in Mumbai... Each story is a perfectly crafted world where the unexpected suddenly expands the reader’s horizons in a single thrilling and affecting moment.”
The winner will be awarded a $2,500 prize.
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