Amit Majmudar
@AmitMajmudar
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Poet, novelist, radiologist. THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books 2025), THINGS MY GRANDMOTHER SAID (Knopf 2026), THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books 2024)
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Read this one from 2020’s What He Did in Solitary at the Indo-American Arts Council literary festival yesterday:
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This new one has very interesting research topics behind it about the scientific study of consciousness and related subjects—the plot is of relatively lesser appeal at this point, since it is just his standard cat and mouse
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We're getting closer to publication. Meanwhile, click on the link below to know the authors of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓. https://t.co/usY6Yfi0VG More soon...
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The list of contributors to THE BARE BONES BOOK OF HUMOUR, an anthology of short stories edited by Ankit Raj Ojha.
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Welcome recognition from the estimable @AmitMajumdar for @emilyasbjorn and her astute translations of Old English and Old Norse. (See the entire thread.) Emily has lately taken the translation world by storm. We all await the publication of her "The Skalds" by WW Norton in 2027.
1/ Let's head back into the Translator's Workshop--this time with @emilyasbjorn Emily Osborne, translating a medieval Icelandic poet. I have been a fan of her translations ever since I first came across them last year. Follow the links below:
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1/ Let's head back into the Translator's Workshop--this time with @emilyasbjorn Emily Osborne, translating a medieval Icelandic poet. I have been a fan of her translations ever since I first came across them last year. Follow the links below:
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4/ And as a bonus to the bonus, here's her discussion of that piece. Looking forward to her book of translations, THE SKALDS, forthcoming from @wwnorton in 2027 https://t.co/ny3tBuGeYP
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January 17, 2025 – “Translating someone else’s suffering should feel like heavy labor, even across centuries and cultures.”
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3/ And now a bonus, if you're a subscriber to The Paris Review: @emilyasbjorn's translation of a portion of "Cruel Loss of Sons" which first gobsmacked me almost a year ago: https://t.co/EwxCCCS3TA
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My family standsat its end, stopsstorm-thrashed
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2/ First here's Emily's piece in @MarginaliaROB -- thanks as ever to @SamuelLoncar and @A_Barylski : be sure to check out the whole issue! https://t.co/PJcI8lYwLz
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EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.
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1/ Let's head back into the Translator's Workshop--this time with @emilyasbjorn Emily Osborne, translating a medieval Icelandic poet. I have been a fan of her translations ever since I first came across them last year. Follow the links below:
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How to eulogize a possibly-not-dead-yet king? Honoured to have my essay on a tricky kenning + stanza of skaldic poetry in the latest issue of @MarginaliaROB. With an insightful introduction by @AmitMajmudar. Thanks to Amit, @SamuelLoncar and @A_Barylski
https://t.co/rymKbCQDKR
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EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.
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there is a reason the Gita says that jnana-yoga (the yoga of Knowledge) is the most difficult form not because it makes the greatest demands on you--it doesn't-- but because it's likeliest to mislead you into a sterile intellectualism that subverts the divine connection
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reading Auden's poetry--he has some early, singsong poems that verge on nonsense-verse that are very charming. later there seems to be a somewhat prolix discursive turn but I am not there yet chronologically
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The war of all wars begins. Arjuna against Karna, Bheem against Duryodhan, and dharma itself on trial. Amit Majmudar’s The Book of Killings brings the Mahabharata’s final battle to life with intensity and insight.
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quite the find over Almost Island, an Indian online magazine--translations into English of Adi Sankara's sacred poetry by a Russian translator Philip Nikolayev (whom I have corresponded with before)--we often sing these at home! Click thru for a link
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These are all true points and highly evident when visiting India and observing Indian households. However, there is an alternative stream, “a free marketplace of gurus,” that is not dissimilar to the competitive American religious context and is highly susceptible to
In India there is also this 'Bhakti is in the air' effect. Like 'Love is in the air'. I shared the other day on how our domestic help was aware and informed on Sringeri Shankaracharya's visit. It is all over the news. City also has hoardings here and there. Community does the
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recent string of wonderful reading, hit after hit: Hamnet by O'Farrell Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Holmes The Satires of Horace (now I know why everybody loves this guy) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin A Good Man is Hard to Find by O'Connor
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"In the meanwhile, in India there is a tremendous revival of religion. There is danger ahead as well as glory; for revival sometimes breeds fanaticism, sometimes goes to the extreme, so that often it is not even in the power of those who start the revival to control it when it
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Poetry transcends borders at #IAAC #LitFest 2025! Join Usha Akella, @yuyutsupoet, Sunayna Kachroo, Srinivas Mandavalli & @AmitMajmudar in conversation with Ravi Shankar. Nov 15 | International House, NYC Register: https://t.co/EpaJYdlMG8
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Please register here if you are interested in attending any of the Saturday sessions at the IAAC Literary Festival on Saturday Nov 15, 2025
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@adambolivar @sfpoetry @newversereview @amitmajmudar recently published the alliterative poems "Word-Hord" in The New Criterion and "Pink" in The Dark Horse magazine. #alliterative #poetry #poetrytwitter #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #alliterativeverse
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