Banibrata Mahanta wins 2025 Muse India Translation Award for translating Hindi novel, ‘Lavanyadevi’

May 13, 2026 - 13:00
Banibrata Mahanta wins 2025 Muse India Translation Award for translating Hindi novel, ‘Lavanyadevi’

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Banibrata Mahanta has won the 2025 Muse India Translation Award for translating Kusum Khemani’s novel Lavanyadevi from the Hindi. He will receive a cash prize of Rs 25,000. The winner was picked from 103 entries from 18 Indian languages.

Commendation Certificates were given to the following translators

  • V Ramaswamy for The Last Bench, by Adhir Biswas from the Bengali

  • Vidya Pai for The Bitter Fruit Tree and Other Stories, by Prakash Parienkar from the Konkani

  • Navdeep Suri for A Game of Fire, by Nanak Singh, from the Punjabi

  • Malini Seshadri for Kurinji Malar, by Na Parthasarathy, from the Tamil

The panel of 12 judges was chaired by a two-member jury consisting of Professor Sachidananda Mohanty and Professor Sukrita Paul Kumar....

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