Spanning Sanskrit, Persian and Dravidian literature, many classic Indic texts have never reached a wide global audience, while others are becoming increasingly inaccessible even to Indian readers.

John Okada’s 1957 novel about a Japanese-American draft resister has been republished by Penguin Classics, raising questions over its ownership. By Alexandra Alter Late last month, Penguin Classics ...

Less than 1% of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years came from a South Asian language, even though the region is home to more than 20% of the world’s population. To ...

Until the 1990s, Ukrainian and Taiwanese literature shared a similar fate on the map of world literature: rarely translated, outsiders perceived them as a literary subset of their larger neighbor, ...