in Mumbai
25th – 27th November 2016
Mumbai, INDIA
LANGUAGE | IMAGE | SOUND |20 Languages | 51 Poets | 187 Poems | 280 Translations
In October 2014, the Poets Translating Poets project was initiated by the Goethe-Institut Mumbai along with the Goethe-Institutes in South Asia, and in collaboration with the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin / Haus für Poesie. The vision was to transcend boundaries of language and culture, through the act of translation and poetry. The project was aimed at creating a platform for poets from South Asia and Germany to translate each other’s works. Over the last year and a half, contemporary poetry from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka was translated into German by well-known German poets, and vice versa. This is the first time that contemporary German poetry has been translated into South Asian languages at such a scale and vice versa.
The fruits of these ‘poetry encounters’ – the original poems and translations, as well as photos and audio recordings – are available online, on an extensive website that is documenting this project in order to make the work available freely and in the public domain
The culmination of this project is a celebration of all things poetry at the Poets Translating Poets Festival (The PTP festival) this November.
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