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Jason Grunebaum
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Jason Grunebaum was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1972.
After receiving a Fulbright in literature to India, he worked for the
International Committee of the Red Cross as an interpreter visiting
detainees in Kashmir, and later as a delegate in Kosovo and East Timor
working on behalf of families of the missing. He received his MFA in
Fiction from Columbia University, and is now a lecturer in Hindi in the
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University
of Chicago, where he continues to write fiction and translate.
His short story “What We Know” appears in the current issue of Third Coast, and “Friends of Your Enemies” is forthcoming in Southwest Review. He has co-translated a selection of Balmukund Gupta’s letters to Lord Curzon, forthcoming in an anthology entitled Translating Nationalism.
In 2005 he was awarded a PEN Translation Fund Grant to translate Uday Prakash’s Hindi novella The Girl with the Golden Parasol, an excerpt of which was published in the University of Iowa’s eXchanges.
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