S3E09: Manik Sarkar "Translators need to read, read, and read"

In this episode, Ana Gueberof-Arenas, the PI of the INCREC-Project, sat down with Manik Sarkar, a literary translator from English and French into Dutch. He is the regular translator of Philippe Claudel and Joël Dicker; he has also translated works by James Baldwin, Kamel Daoud, Irène Némirovsky, Hisham Matar, Alexandre Jardin and Frédéric Beigbeder. He has translated well over sixty titles since 2002, and also graphic novels.

Manik is also a lecturer at the Vertalersvakschool in Amsterdam since 2015 and is also a writer. His debut novel Ossenkop (Bullhead) was published in 2024 and is being translated into other languages like German (already out), French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Greek, Norwegian and Swedish. The book was nominated for several awards, and won the Hebban Debuutprijs, the Hans Vervoort prize and the Beste Groninger Boek 2025.