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Announcement: Translation Competition Results

The Antonym and Bhasha Samsad jointly organized the poetry translation competition for translating poems from different South Asian languages into English and Bengali. Following poets from different languages gave us their poems for the translation competition:

Assamese – Sameer Tanti

Bengali – Mohammad Nurul Huda

Bengali – Ranajit Das

Gujarati – Kamal Vora

Hindi – Anamika

Kashmiri – Naseem Shafaie

Malayalam – K Satchidanandan

Marathi – Santosh Pawar

Odia – Saroj Bal

Tamil – Sukirtharani

Urdu – Munwwar Rana

We received tremendous response from the translators for most of the languages. For translation into Bengali from few source languages, we did not receive any responses. As such, no award could be given for those.

Under the stewardship of Sri Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, eminent translator, editor and cultural administrator, a select jury from each of the source languages looked at each of the submitted translations carefully and arrived at the following final result:

Source Language

Poet

English

Bengali

Assamese

Sameer Tanti

Harsita Hiya

Malay Sarkar

Bengali

Mohammad Nurul Huda

Indrani Bhattacharya

Ranajit Das

Padmakali Kar

Gujarati

Kamal Vora

Pratishtha Pandya

Hindi

Anamika

Pallavi Singh

Sriparna Bandyopadhyay

Kashmiri

Naseem Shafaiye

Mohammad Zahid

Malayalam

K Satchidanandan

Ajir Kutty K.M.

Marathi

Santosh Pawar

Santosh Rathod

Arghya Dutta

Odia

Saroj Bal

 Snehaprava Das

Kausik Banerjee

Tamil

Sukirtharani

Deepalakshmi Joseph

Shirsha Mondal/ Gnanasekaran

Urdu

Munawwar Rana

Tapan Kumar Pradhan

Faiz Ahmed


We congratulate all the translators winning the Jibanananda Das Awards and Sonali Ghoshal Awards for respective languages.

We will also like to take this opportunity to thank all the translators who submitted for the competition. We look forward to work with you in furthering the cause of translation.

For any queries, please reach out to us at kolkatapoetryconfluence@gmail.com

Announcement : Poetry In Motion

The Antonym Voice Award

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Announcement : Crossing The Bridge

Multilingual Poetry Competition

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Announcement : কবিতায় স্বরলিপি ভাষা সংসদ পুরষ্কার ২০২২

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কবিতায় স্বরলিপি ভাষা সংসদ পুরষ্কার ২০২২

“ভ্রু পল্লবে ডাক দিয়েছ, বেশ।

আমার কিন্তু পুরনো অভ্যেস

মিনিট দশেক দেরীতে পৌঁছনো

তোমার ঘড়ি একটু জোরেই ছোটে

আস্তে করে কামড় দিচ্ছ ঠোঁটে

ঠোঁটের নীচে থমকে আছে ব্রণ…”

 

লাইনগুলো চেনা মনে হচ্ছে? জানি চেনা।সকলের প্রিয় কবি শ্রীজাতর লেখা যে। এবার শ্রীজাতর লেখা  কবিতা পড়া, আবৃত্তির পাশাপাশি সকলের জন্য আসতে চলছে আরেকটি বিষয়।শ্রীজাতর লেখা প্রিয় কবিতায় সুর দিন,এবং গান বাঁধুন সেই সুরে। ভাবছেন সেটা আবার কী! তাহলে বলি দ্যা আন্টোনিম ও ভাষা সংসদ যৌথ ভাবে আয়োজন করেছে এক প্রতিযোগিতা। 

বিষয় – শ্রীজাতর লেখা কবিতায় সুর আরোপ।

শ্রীজাতর লেখা  যেকোনো পছন্দের কবিতা আপনি বেছে নিতে পারেন সুর দেওয়ার জন্য। সুর দেওয়া হলে গান গেয়ে পাঠিয়ে দিন নির্দিষ্ট মেল আইডিতে – kpcvoices2022@gmail.com. পাঠাতে হবে mp3 ফরম্যাটে। আর মেলের বিষয় হিসাবে লিখুন – <কবিতায় স্বরলিপি – আপনার নাম> ।  সুর দেওয়া, গান গাওয়া আর যন্ত্র সঙ্গীতে অনেকে যুক্ত থাকলে সকলের নাম মেলে দিতে ভুলবেন না।

সেরা সুর কোনটি বেছে নেবেন স্বয়ং কবি ও নির্দিষ্ট বিচারক মন্ডলী।

বিশেষ দিনগুলিঃ

জমা দেওয়ার শেষ তারিখঃ ১৫ই মে

নির্বাচিত প্রতিযোগীদের তালিকা ঃ ৩১শে মে

চূড়ান্ত প্রতিযোগীরা পাচ্ছেন জুন মাসের ১১তারিখ কবির সঙ্গে ছবি এবং তার সামনে  এক স্টেজে অনুষ্ঠান করার সুযোগ। আর বিজয়ী প্রতিযোগীরা পাবেন ‘ কবিতায় স্বরলিপি ভাষা সংসদ পুরষ্কার ২০২২’ ।

তাহলে দেরী কেন! কবির অনুরাগীরা আজ থেকেই শুরু করে দিন সুর বাঁধার কাজ,আর চটপট করে পাঠিয়ে দিন আমাদের মেল আইডি তে।

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বি.দ্রঃ 

১) সুর দেওয়ার পর তা কোনও জায়গায় প্রকাশ করতে পারবেন না কবি ও উপরোক্ত দুটি সংস্থার অনুমতি ছাড়া। সেক্ষেত্রে আপনার গাওয়া গানটি মনোনীত করা যাবে না এবং copyright লঙ্ঘন করা হবে।

২) সুর দেওয়ার পর ওই সুরের অন্য কোনও গান বাঁধা চলবে না

৩) মনোনীত সুরটির সম্পূর্ণ অধিকার কবি ও সংস্থার।

৪) ১৫ই মের পর পাঠালে প্রতিযোগিতায় গ্রহণ করা হবে না।

৫) মেল করবেন kpcvoices2022@gmail.com এই ঠিকানায়

Poetry in Motion

the antonym voice award

Kolkata Poetry Confluence is calling for submission of Poetry Films for The Antonym Voices Award 2022.

For this competition, poetry films need to conform to the following categories :

Poetic Interpretation: Videos created to bring new meaning and dimension to pre-existing poetry. Any poems used for this purpose must be in the public domain or else used with written consent of the author.

Video Poetry: Poets using video form as their tool for poetic expression

Poetry by Video Artists: Artists using text visually along with audio enhancing the poetic meaning.

Submission Rules :

  1. The poetry films categorized as above can be in any language but need to have English subtitle if the spoken language used is not English.
  2. All films need to be longer than 3 minutes and within a maximum length of 6 minutes including the beginning and end credits.
  3. All submissions need to be new and not already published or distributed through any media.
  4. All submissions should be sent to KPCVoices2022@gmail.com
  5. Submission package should include the following:
    1. Submitted Film in Full HD mp4 format.
    2. Brief synopsis about the film.
    3. Poster for the film
    4. Att least 3 still images from your film (for promotional purposes.)
    5. Poet’s consent to be provided if applicable.
    6. Content used in the film like music, images, footages, if any, should be your own or with due permission.  It should not breach any copyrights. In case it is copyrighted then makers must provide written permission for its usage in the film and should be part of the submission package
    7. All submissions will clearly mention in the credit the people involved in the making of the film.

Viewing

  1. Kolkata Poetry Confluence will have the right to showcase all submitted poetry films in its channel for seven days when films will be opened for people’s choice voting.
  2. All awarded films will be published in The Antonym magazine while the producer of the film will have the right to showcase anywhere after the competition is over.

Award:

There will be The Antonym Voices Award of Rs 10000 INR , Rs 5000 INR and Rs 3000 INR for the top 3 films under the category of jury award.

There will also be The Antonym People’s Choice Award of Rs 10000 that will be decided on popular voting.

The award is given for the film and not for any individual. However the director of the wining films will be invited for the Kolkata Poetry Confluence event 11-12th June held in Kolkata with travel and accommodation provided for travelers within India.

Key Dates:

The Antonym Voices Award for poetry films extended till 31st July, 2022

Submission opens on 4th April and closes on 30th May.

Submission will be showcased on KPC Youtube Channel from 1st  June to 7th June for voting.

Shortlist will be announced on 1st June, 2022.

The top 10 films will be showcased on 12th June during the Kolkata Poetry Confluence in the presence of the Jury members.

Crossing The Bridge

multilingual poetry competition

The Antonym and Bhasha Samsad are jointly organizing a poetry translation competition which will require participants to translate poems from different South Asian languages into English and Bengali. The best translations for each of the source and destination language pairs will be awarded. The winning translators will also  get the opportunity to attend  the Kolkata Poetry Confluence – River of Words,  in Kolkata along with the poets they translated. The event will be held in June,2022.    

More than ever now, we live in a world that materializes and evaporates in translation. In poetry, as in life, what we gain in translation is as important as what we lose.  The Antonym and Bhasha Samsad are going to host this poetry translation competition to bring together diverse poetic traditions and build bridges across languages and cultures. Eleven poets writing in ten different South Asian languages have each selected five of their own poems for translation. Below is the list where you can click on each poet’s name to view the poems up for translation :

Language Poet Jibanananda Das Award for translating into English Sonali Ghoshal Award for translating into Bengali
Assamese
Sameer Tanti
English
Bengali
Bengali
Mohammad Nurul Huda
English
Bengali
Ranajit Das
English
Gujarati
Kamal Vora
English
Bengali
Hindi
Anamika
English
Bengali
Kashmiri
Naseem Shafaie
English
Bengali
Malayalam
K Satchidanandan
English
Bengali
Marathi
Santosh Pawar
English
Bengali
Oriya
Saroj Bal
English
Bengali
Tamil
Sukirtharani
English
Bengali
Urdu
Munwaar Rana
English
Bengali

Contestants  must submit their work through  https://antonymmag.submittable.com/submit by 10th May, 2022.

Please note that separate submissions will have to be made for each source-destination language pair. The Antonym will present the Jibanananda Das Awards of INR 5000 each to the best English translators, and Bhasha Samsad will likewise present the Sonali Ghoshal Awards of INR 5000 each to the best Bengali translators.

The awards ceremony will be held on June 11-12, 2022, at The Kolkata Poetry Confluence. All successful translators will get the opportunity to travel to the event in Kolkata (domestic travel and accommodation will be arranged by the event organizers).

Selection Process:

The submissions will be judged at two levels. A language specific judging team comprising of poet translators from each language will confirm the fidelity of the translated work to the original while achieving poetic expression in the destination language. At the end of this step, a  long list will be announced.
At the next level, the final jury members drawn from a set of international poet translators will find the best translations for every poet’s work.
To confirm, there is no competition among participating poet’s works, rather comparison among translations done on a specific poet’s chosen poems.
The overall selection process will be coordinated by the Selection Committee Chair, Mr Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee is an editor, critic, translator and cultural administrator. Has taught English Literature at Gauhati University and Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. Worked as Director, National Book Trust; Director, K K Birla Foundation and Editor, Indian Literature.  From 2013 to 2016 he worked as the Editorial Consultant of the Multi-volume Documentation Project of the Rashtrapati Bhavan launched by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then President of India. An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, his English translations of fictions of Rabindranath Tagore (Two Sisters, Quartet ), Mahasveta Devi ( The Armenian Champak Tree ), Sunil Gangopadhyay ( The Dreadful Beauty ), Manik Bandyopadhyay ( ‘Burnt Turmeric’ ) and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay ( The Ghost of Gosain Bagan ) have all been very well received. He has also translated a Kannada short story collection of U. R. Anantamurthy and a Marathi novel by Viswas Patil into Bengali in collaboration with the original authors. Recipient of the best translator’s award from IBBY Congress at London in 2012, Mr Bhattacharjee has also edited The Complete Plays of J P Das, published by Har-Anand Publishers, New Delhi, co-edited a collection of stories of displacement from Assam (Barbed Wire Fence, Niyogi Books), four volumes of the Best of Indian Literature (1957-2007), published by the Sahitya Akademi. He currently works as the Editorial Director of Niyogi Books, New Delhi.

Key Dates:

Submission opens: February 17, 2022

Submission closes: May 10, 2022

Announcement of the long list : May 20, 2022

Final result: May 31, 2022

For any query, please write to kolkatapoetryconfluence@gmail.com

To know more about Kolkata Poetry Confluence – The River of Words,  visit www.kolkatapoetryconfluence.org

To know more about The Antonym magazine, visit www.theantonymmag.com

To know more about Bhasha Samsad, visit www.bhashasamsad.co