Translated from the original Bengali by Dipen Bhattacharya and Lisa Conyers. The sun was setting;...
Amenhotep’s Time – Dipen Bhattacharya
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Fiction
Green Adam, Grey Adam, Red Adam! – Sultan Alqaisi
Translated from the Arabic by Adam Lebzo. Twenty hours passed before Adam decided to wake up. He’d...
The Kiss – Cayce Pratt
A bell announced her arrival at the diner during the first hour of my shift. When she entered, she...
Endless – Manoj Kumar Goswami
Translated from the Assamese by Ranjita Biswas. “Haraprasad, give me a packet of cigarette”Once a...
Sacred Places – Stephen Paul Martin
Three years ago, my family disappeared. It was at a place called Hidden Beach in northern...
A Seed – Nirzhar Noishabdya
Placed fourth in the Tagore award for translated fiction 2021 Translated from the Bengali by...
Sichuan Chili – Shuvam Das
Riti needed spectacles to see faces. She had left hers in the consultation room, back at the...
Lianchhiari and Chawngfianga – Margaret L.Pachuau
Adapted from a Mizo folklore A long time ago, in the village of Dungtlang, there lived a beautiful...
The Man and The Tree – Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
The Antonym instituted the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali in 2021. Here is the story in translation that came seccond in the inaugural season of the Tagore Award for translated fiction -The Man and the Tree written by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri and translated by Chirayata Chakraborty.
A Cloudless Night, An Eclipsed Moon – Papree Rahman
Papree Rahaman is a noted writer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has many collections of short stories. Her notable novels include Bayan (2008), Palatia (2011), Nadidhara Abasik Elaka (2019). Papree also edited many important magazines and anthologies.