Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma speaks about translation as a form of apprenticeship to master poets, sharing how translating from Tamil and from Spanish has shaped his journey as a writer and poet and showing how what he calls the lyric imagination can transcend the boundaries between words.
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![[Moderator] Anitha Devi Pillai](/images/SGTS2023-Speakers/Anitha_Devi_Pillai_cropped.png)
Anitha Devi Pillai has authored and edited creative and non-creative fiction books as well as translated the historical fiction novel, Sembawang: A Novel (2020) by Kamaladevi Aravindan, from Tamil into English. Anitha also loves writing poetry and her work explores themes such as identity, heritage, and culture. Anitha is fluent in English, Tamil and speaks Malayalam.
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma is an author, translator, teacher, and performer. His translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was recently published by Beacon Press. Other books include The Safety of Edges (poems), Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar (translated from the Tamil) and Body and Earth (with the artist C.F. John). He speaks and performs widely, teaches for the Cozy Grammar series of online video courses, and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the U. S. Fulbright Program. thomaspruiksma.com
Photo: David Mielke
