Literature Across Frontiers Fellowship welcomes Indian writer to Wales
One of India’s leading writers is spending three months at Aberystwyth University following the launch of Literature Across Frontiers’ (LAF) inaugural Charles Wallace India Trust Creative Translation and Writing Fellowship. The Charles Wallace India Trust supports a number of fellowships including four in the area of creative writing and translation. The LAF Aberystwyth Fellowship offers a new opportunity to live and work in Wales for a period of three months. The Fellowship is the first of its kind in Wales and the latest in a series of similar residencies already open to Indian literary translators and writers at the universities of East Anglia, Kent and Stirling. Alexandra Büchler, director of Literature Across Frontiers said: “We are delighted to have Venkateswar Ramaswamy with us as the inaugural CWIT fellow and immensely thankful to the Charles Wallace India Trust for making the residency possible. “Rama, as we soon started to call him, will be working on the translation of a n...