Wales Literature Exchange looks forward to welcoming two of India’s most exciting and outspoken poets to Aberystwyth to take part in two events organised by our sister organization, Literature Across Frontiers and hosted by the Centre for Cultural Translation at Aberystwyth University.

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, activist and translator whose work maintains a focus on caste annihilation, linguistic identity and feminism.

Mamta Sagar is an Indian poet and playwright writing in Kannada.

The poets will be and will take part in two events:

New poetry from India: Meena Kandasamy and Mamta Sagar with Eurig Salisbury and Hywel Griffiths,

Waterstones, Aberystwyth, 24 June 2015, 18:00 – 19.30, Free.

Indian poets Meena Kandasamy and Mamta Sagar join Welsh poets Eurig Salisbury and Hywel Griffiths for a reading at Waterstones bookshop. With Poetry Wales.

Seminar: Poetry, Politics and Cultural Translation,

Research Centre for Cultural Translation, Aberystwyth University, 25 June 2015, 14:00 – 16:00, Free.

All are welcome for this seminar on Poetry, Politics and Cultural Translation. Dr Meena Kandasamy discusses ‘Translation and the taboo of sex in the case of the Thirukkural’ and Dr Mamta Sagar ‘Translating poetry and politics beyond linguistic spaces’.

These events are supported by Wales Arts International, Literature Across Frontiers and Poetry Wales.

The Research Centre for Cultural Translation is part of the Institute of Literature Languages and Creative Arts, which includes the academic departments of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Welsh, English and Creative Writing, European Languages and the School of Art.

For more infromation on the events vist the Literature Across frontiers website.