As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago (and as no major US/UK media outlet appears yet to have realized ...), leading Indian author U.R.Ananthamurthy has passed away; among the many interesting pieces about him in the Indian press, Bageshree S. now writes in The Hindu on The writer as translator, as Ananthamurty translated works by:
W.B. Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edwin Muir or the teachings of Lao Tzu to Kannada.As I frequently note, I think translation is a great exercise for writers; I'm not surprised Ananthamurthy took this, too, seriously.