The original collection appeared in 1967. Colvin Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at UChicago until his death in 2003. Ramanujan New York Review Books/Poets, 2014 “There is not much else in any Indian literature equal to these quiet and dramatic Tamil poems,” wrote Ramanujan, a translator, poet, and linguist who was the William H.
The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love PoemsĮdited and translated by A. Srilata Penguin Global, 2010 A compilation that begins with the earliest known Tamil poetry-from the second century CE-and continues to the contemporary era. The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil PoetryĮdited by Lakshmi Holmström, Subashree Krishnaswami, and K. Here are his recommended Tamil-to-English translations of notable literary works, in roughly chronological order. There are “wonderful works” from every period in the language’s 2,000-year history, he says, from ancient epics to 19th-century novels to contemporary poetry: “What continues to fascinate me is precisely the great diversity of themes and writing styles a reader of Tamil literature can encounter.”Įbeling-who teaches advanced Tamil language courses as well as Tamil and world literature-has translated works himself to make them available to more readers. “Sadly, to this day almost all of Tamil literature continues to be a hidden treasure, since it is not well-known outside of India,” says Sascha Ebeling, associate professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. In the past 30 years, globalization and ethnic conflict have scattered the Tamil speaking population of India and Sri Lanka around the world, but Tamil literary works haven’t been translated widely to other languages.
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