Jayashree Joshi
India
Jayashree Hari Joshi studied German at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and taught German after receiving her MA.
She has been working at the Goethe Institute since 1996, was a program officer for twenty years, and since 2016 has been the director of the institute's library in Mumbai. In her doctoral dissertation she compared the alienation effect in epic theatre and in the Rasa theory of ancient Indian dramaturgy.
In addition to the Indian languages Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit, she is fluent in English and German. She has translated German poems and plays into Hindi, Marathi and English. She also writes poetry in Marathi, which is regularly published. She has translated plays, poems, short stories novels and children's and youth literature from English and German into Hindi and Marathi. Her book reviews and essays on literary topics appear regularly in printed or digital form in various national newspapers and magazines. Jayashree Joshi lives in Mumbai.
selected translations
Selected Poems of Ulrike Draesner, translated into Marathi with Aruna Dhere. Rohan Prakashan, 2019Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar: Das Uhreninstitut (saatleri ayarlama enstitüsü). Popular Prakashan, 2017
Oya Baydar: Das Judasbaum-Tor (erguvan kapısı). Popular Prakashan, 2017
Thomas Endl: Nikolaus und Nikolina. Pratham Books, 2012
Klaus Baumgart: Leni und Twiek. Pratham Books, 2008
Siegfried Lenz: Zeit der Schuldlosen. Sangeet Natak Akademi, 1989
