author, poet, teacher, and performer
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
I'm deeply honored to be speaking at the annual awards ceremony for the Tamil Literary Garden in Toronto.
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
How do you live and act ethically in a complex and changing world? And how do you relate with integrity and love to the workings of wealth and power? In Tamil-speaking south India, the Kural is revered as a guide to goodness and good sense in the nitty-gritty of daily life. Its great practicality, openness, […]
I'm deeply honored to be participating in the 11th World Tamil Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 21-23, 2023, where I'll be speaking about my English translation of the Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural. Here is a video greeting in Tamil. Turn on captions for an English translation.
I'm delighted to be the Singapore Book Council's first Translator in Residence. You can read about all the different events on the Singapore Book Council website.
As part of being the Singapore Book Council's first translator in residence, I'll be joining Zulfadli Rashid for what should be a very rich afternoon of sharing and discussion. Here is a complete description: Join us for a translation-filled afternoon as we hear from two creators working in two different genres: Big, a playwright known […]
As part of being the Singapore Book Council's first translator in residence, I'm delighted to offer a translation masterclass. Here is a complete description: What makes a translation come alive? How can words cross between worlds? In this interactive masterclass, the author, poet, translator, and teacher Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma will guide participants through four key […]
As part of being the Singapore Book Council's first translator in residence, I'm delighted to offer an evening reading. Here is a complete description: Join poet, translator, teacher, and performer Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma for a reading of his own poetry and translations from Tamil and from Spanish. Interspersing his reading with stories and reflections, he’ll […]
I'm honored to offer the keynote address for the Singapore Translation Symposium 2023. Here is a complete description: Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma speaks about translation as a form of apprenticeship to master poets, sharing how translating from Tamil and from Spanish has shaped his journey as a writer and poet and showing how what he calls […]
