Bilal Hashmi
City :
Toronto
Province :
ON
Zip Code :
M4S 2H4
Country :
Canada
Membership category :
Full member
About / Bio
Bilal Hashmi is President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada/Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada and the Executive Director and Publisher of Quattro Books. He teaches Urdu at the University of Toronto, where he took his B.A. and M.A. in English before obtaining an M.Phil in comparative literature from New York University. Since 2018, he has served on the editorial board of ellipse. In 2019 he organized the French to English & English to French workshop for the British Centre for Literary Translation’s International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School in Norwich, UK; and, in the following year, he was invited to serve on the faculty of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He proudly represents Canadian translators on the board of the Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada.
At present, he is preparing an edition, with further translations and commentary, of Certain Poems—Ezra Pound’s 1913 translations of the fifteenth-century Hindi poet, Kabir (to be published with Quattro Books).
English translations of novels that are underway, or are forthcoming, include the following (from the Urdu, French, and Persian, respectively):
• Flight, by Aziz Ahmad, McGill-Queen’s University Press. (2020) [Original title: Gurez.]
• The Aquarium, by Jacques Godbout, Quattro Books. (2021) (under contract) [Original title: L’Aquarium.]
• Infernal Times of Young Ayaz, by Reza Baraheni. (in preparation) [Original title: Rūzigār-i dūzakhī-yi āqā-yi Ayāz.]
Languages
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French -> English
Urdu -> English
English -> Urdu
Hindi -> English
English -> Hindi
Persian -> English
Literary Types
- Non fiction
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Theatre
Selected Bibliography
- Jacques Godbout, «The Aquarium» («L’Aquarium»), Toronto, Quattro Books, forthcoming, 2021.
- Aziz Ahmad, «Flight» («Gurez»), Montréal/Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming, 2020.
- Sajjad Zahir, «A Night in London» («Landan ki ek rat»), Noida, Harper Perennial, 2011.
- in preparation: Reza Baraheni, «Infernal Times of Young Ayaz» («Rūzigār-i dūzakhī-yi āqā-yi Ayāz»).