Showing posts with label Simon Wickham-Smith. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Center for Central Asian Literatures in Translation


“CCALT, the Center for Central Asian Literatures in Translation, aims to provide high-quality English translations of various forms of literature from throughout the Central Asian region. In an effort to promote the availability and understanding of what has thus far been an underrepresented region, CCALT aims to make English editions of works from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang available online.”

Sunday, January 06, 2008

from: *A Very Big White Elephant: New Voices in Mongolian Poetry*

But, at the end, one thing:
In this struggle, you will never be victorious.
You will never win. And that’s because
There’s nothing good in anything.

--D.Enkhboldbaatar, “…(emphatikos)”