Speakers

Manisha Chaudhry

Manisha Chaudhry currently leads Jaipur BookMark, the publishing segment of the Jaipur Literature Festival and also heads the Zubaan-Prabha Khaitan Translation. An editor and translator, her work has been published by Kali for Women, Oxford University Press, Zubaan, Yatra, Niyogi and Pratham Books as also Permanent Black. Her translation, A Street in Srinagar, of the Hindi novel Ailan Gali Zinda Hai by Chandrakanta was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for Literature in 2012. Her most recent translation, The Chipko Movement:A People’s History of Shekhar Pathak’s Hari Bhari Ummeed has been awarded the Kamla Devi Chattopadhyay NIF book prize, 2022.