Jason Grunebaum

Jason Grunebaum is a Senior Lecturer and teaches beginning, intermediate, and, occasionally, advanced Hindi. He is a fiction writer and translator of modern and contemporary Hindi fiction. His English translation of Uday Prakash's Hindi novel The Girl with the Golden Parasol (Yale University Press 2013/Penguin India 2008) was awarded a 2005 PEN Translation Fund grant, and his translation of a trio of Prakash novellas entitled The Walls of Delhi, published in 2012 by UWA Press, has been short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was awarded a 2011 NEA Literature Fellowship for the translation, in collaboration with Ulrike Stark, of Manzoor Ahtesham's The Tale of the Missing Man. He received a 2006 Fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association and has been awarded residencies at the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Foundation. Jason is also a member of the University Creative Writing Advisory Committee and has published fiction in several literary magazines. Salman Rushdie selected his Maria Ximenes da Costa de Carvalho Perreira as a 2007 short story of distinction.