We are happy to announce that this week, to celebrate Women in Translation month, KathaSatha, in collaboration with Quixote's Cove, will be launching Night by Sulochana (translated into English by Muna Gurung).

To Dream A New Dream
Saturday, Aug 21 at 6PM (Nepal time)
LIVE via KathaSatha and Quixote's Cove's Facebook pages

We will be joined by writer + activist, Archana Thapa; writer, Indu Tharu, and writer+poet, Luna Ranjit. We close the evening with an intimate reading by Sulochana.

Surrounding the launch, we have curated a host of events and workshops for you. Please stay tuned.

Note: All [Live] events will be broadcasted via Facebook pages of Quixote's Cove and KathaSatha.

WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH EVENTS

Wednesday, 18 August | 6 PM Nepal Time
च्या खानु भो? By Basanta Basnet, a conversation with Bhrikuti Rai and Muna Gurung

Saturday, 21 August | 6PM Nepal Time [Live]
To Dream A New Dream, launch of NIGHT by Sulochana (trans. Muna Gurung)

Sunday, 22 August | 9PM Nepal Time [Live]
Insomniac Moon Reading by Sulochana

Wednesday, 25 August [Live]
In Translation, a conversation between Tenzin Dickie and Muna Gurung

Tuesday, 31 August [Live]
Why Like That? Translation trivia night with Bhrikuti Rai, Bibhu Luitel, Itisha Giri, Muna Gurung & Rukshana Kapali

Saturday- Sunday, 10-11 September
Lost (& Found) in Translation, a Nepali to English translation workshop with Muna Gurung (by application)

Night by Sulochana (trans. by Muna Gurung)
August 2021
Publisher: Safu
Pages: 86

ORDER A COPY OF NIGHT TODAY:
Available at all major books stores in Kathmandu and Lalitpur.
Online at THUPRAI and Daraz

Born in 1955, Sulochana grew up in Jhochhen, an old neighbourhood in the heart of Kathmandu. Politicised at a young age, enamoured by Marxist rhetoric, Sulochana spent a lot of her 20s organizing and empowering women, Dalits, and labourers. Sulochana became one of the most active women leading prominent labour and women’s rights movements during Nepal’s Panchayat era (1960-90). In 2010, Sulochana became the first writer to chair the Mother Tongue Literature Department at Nepal Academy. She writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry in Nepali, Nepal Bhasa and Chinese. A regular columnist of Sampurna Aakaash (The Entire Sky) and a host for a show on Radio Sagarmatha called Jivanbata Jivan Sikau (Learn about Life from Life), Sulochana calls herself a ‘people’s writer’. Published in 2014, Raat (Night) is Sulochana's second book of poems.

Muna Gurung is a writer, translator and educator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She teaches writing at The Open Institute for Social Sciences. When not writing or teaching, she runs an inter-generational pickle company called ĀMĀKO. For more visit: munagurung.com