Indo-Canadian translator on International Booker longlist
LONDON: Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian writer of Indian heritage, was on Tuesday named on the 2026 International Booker Prize longlist as the English translator of a "haunting" Portuguese language novel by Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia.
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