MALAYALI WOMAN WHO IS A WRITER IN DANISH
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Far away, in Denmark, a Malayali woman has shown proficiency by writing poems in Danish. Sara Mathai Stinus, sister of former Vice Chancellor Samuel Mathai, who has settled down at Denmark along with her husband, is this unique person.
Several
of her poems have appeared in a leading daily of Denmark.
She is also represented in some anthologies.
“I
am keeping my fingers crossed as my publisher is going ahead with plans to
publish a collection of Indian fables which I have retold in Danish”,
she says. Her next project is
to adopt some of the Birbal stories.
Sara
was born in North Karnataka where her father, who was with National
Missionary Society, migrated. Although
they spoke Malayalam at home, the medium of instruction at school was
Kannada. It was at a later
stage that she learned Malayalam. Thus
she reads printed matte in Malayalam “with some effort and guesswork”,
as she puts it.
Sara
was a lecturer in history and politics at Wilson College, Mumbai before
she left for Denmark. For a
short while, she and her husband worked as volunteer teachers of adult
education at Tanzania.
Sara’s
husband is also a poet and writer. He
has translated the works of R.K.Narayanan, Premchand and Khuswant Singh to
Danish. She has not severed
her ties with Kerala. She
makes it a point to visit Kerala every year.
Courtesy: New Indian Express, September 13, 1997
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