Dr. Mrinmoy Pramanick, an alumnus of the Centre for Comparative Studies, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), has received the prestigious Charles Wallace Translation Fellowship 2025.
Dr. Pramanick will join the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, UK in January, 2025. He completed his MPhil in Translation Studies from 2009 to 2010, followed by a PhD in Comparative Literature from 2010 to 2015.
During his fellowship stay he will be working on his own project on translating Children’s testimonies of Toto speech community which is outcome of workshop organised by his research team and him at the Totopara village. Toto is one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups in India, and a critically endangered linguistic community. Their initiative is the first recorded children literature of the Toto people which is written by children and is also the second printed book by the community.
Dr. Pramanick presently serves as an Assistant Professor and the HoD at the Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, and founder Coordinator of the Centre for Translation and Literary Geography at the University of Calcutta.