Academic and feminist J Devika’s politics is central to the job of translation, and she is never apologetic about it. Her recent translation of Manoj Kuroor’s novel The Day the Earth Bloomed won the Crossword Book Award for Translation, and the inaugural Kerala Literature Festival Book of the Year (Fiction) in 2025. In a conversation with Scroll, J Devika discussed the book and other aspects of her translation. Excerpts from the interview: What made you gravitate towards Manoj Kuroor’s novel, and what helped you translate the sensibilities of the Sangam era literature into English? The answer to the first is...
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