Founder and Director of Untold Narratives, Lucy Hannah spoke on the panel Invisible Ink at Shillong Literary Festival in North East India, to highlight the importance of translation for structurally marginalised writers, with Kannada language writer, Banu Mushtaq, Assamese novelist and short story writer, Arupa Patangia Kalita and moderated by Shahana Chatterjee.
The event also featured a recording from Parand, an Afghan writer and contributor to My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), sent from Afghanistan, explaining how a year’s worth of WhatsApp messages in Dari and Pashto have been published in five languages, including English.
