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Shanta Gokhale (born 14 August 1939) is an Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic. She is best known for her works Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi. Early life and education.
Shanta Gokhale: Home. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. For my belief is that if we live another century or so - I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals and have five hundred a year each of us and have rooms of our own; if we ...
Learn about Shanta Gokhale's life, education, career and achievements as a writer, translator and culture columnist. She has written novels, plays, essays, film scripts and translated works from Marathi and English.
- A Necessary Service
- Getting Under The Skin of The Text
- Rewards of Translation
- The Aftershock
Two elements of this strike me immediately. What makes translation a necessary service? I ask. “I learned the meaning of translation as a necessary service when I was in England. Bristol had a very small community of Indians and everyone knew everyone else and also who was Marathi and who was Goan and so on. And so there was a court case, and the m...
And the skill? “That I gradually discovered that I could get under the skin of the text where the author is and where the author is giving herself an external face in the form of the words she is using. Through that face, one learns how to reveal that face and those words in another language. So it isn’t about getting the right words by discerning ...
The rewards of translation? “The most gratifying moment of my life in translation—other than this award and the award I got for translating Em and the Big Hoom [Em aani Hoomrao, Popular Prakashan]—was when I was in England in 1992 on a British Council grant. It was a small grant but since I was already in Berlin for the Festival of India, and my so...
This would have been a great place to end but there was an aftershock. “I was so delighted I came back and mentioned this to Mahesh because I thought he would be delighted at the thought of his work travelling in this unexpected manner. Instead he said, ‘But they didn’t ask me’ and sent them a legal notice. The poor director must have wondered why ...
Jun 21, 2023 · Shanta Gokhale is a novelist, playwright, translator, cultural critic and theatre historian. Her many honours include the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to the...
Jul 17, 2022 · Shanta Gokhale is the 2021 winner of the Sahitya Akademi award for English translation for Laxmibai Tilak’s ‘Smritichitre’.
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Nov 3, 2019 · Often called the "Grande Dame" of Marathi theatre, Shanta Gokhale is a novelist, journalist, translator, and cultural/theatre critic in Mumbai, India. 1 She graduated with a degree in English language and literature from the University of Bristol, UK.
