Divya Kalavala

Divya Kalavala is an academic and translator. She was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellowship for the year 2023-24 at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK. She holds a doctoral degree in Film Studies from The English and Foreign Languages University and has been teaching interdisciplinary courses in the English discipline at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru. Several of her literary translations are forthcoming. Divya translates from her mother tongue Telugu into English and is primarily interested in translating literary texts from the margins as a form of political solidarity.