The guest for this Episode is Vineet Gill. He spoke about his pursuit of literature, the Hindi Writer Nirmal Verma, and the State of Literary Translations in India.
A well-known name in Hindi literature, Nirmal Verma is known mainly for his fictional works. Born on April 3, 1929, he obtained an M.A. in history from Delhi University. He studied Czech at the Oriental Institute in Prague and has been a Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies. Nirmal Verma is a recipient of India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith, and his short stories Kavve aur kala pani won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985.
Vineet Gill is a writer and works as a senior editor at Penguin Random House, India. Earlier he worked for The Sunday Guardian and The Times of India. His essays, often literary-critical and occasionally personal, have appeared in various Indian and international publications. He is an Engineer by Education. He is the author of Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma's Life in Literature, published by Penguin in September 2022.
Links are provided in the show notes to buy the book and also to the article Nirmal Verma on Borges the great Argentine Writer. This article is translated by Vineet Gill.
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Nirmal Verma on Borges Translated by Vineet Gill -
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