Modern Literature language & Translation by Annie Montaut

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Date(s) - 20/09/2022
11:30 am - 12:30 pm

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Alliance Française de Delhi in partnership with Institut Français en Inde present CONVERSATION – Vedic India by Charles Malamoud followed by Modern Literature Language and Translation by Annie Montaut.

Date	Tuesday, 20th Sept 2022
Time	11:30 AM
Venue	Library, AF Delhi

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Annie Montaut, professor emeritus of universities, is a great specialist in Vaid’s work. She taught modern and contemporary French literature in Canada and India before turning to general linguistics in Nanterre, then to Indian linguistics and Hindi literature at Inalco. She is the author of around a hundred articles dealing in particular with linguistics and Indian literature. She is also a literary translator, mainly from Hindi to French.

 

(born in 1929 in Moldavia) is a French religious historian, orientalist and Indianist. Arrived in France in 1937, he studied Classics and Russian at the Sorbonne from 1951 to 1954. He trained in Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE). From 1964 he regularly visited India. Member of the Linguistic Society of Paris and of the Asian Society since 1956 as well as of the Center for Indian Studies almost since its foundation, he defended his thesis in 1979 at the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. He is director honorary studies of religions of India at EPHE.