Interlinear Translators

Salman Abbas

Goethe-Institut
Salman Abbas
Foto: Goethe-Institut / Vivek Muthuramalingam
Salman Abbas has a Master’s in German Literature from the University of Delhi and an MPhil in German from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He taught German Literature and German as a foreign language at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has coordinated two translation projects, one from the Indian side under Professor Doktor Ursula Kocher at the Free University of Berlin 2009, and the second was in the framework of “A New Passage to India” initiative of the DAAD between Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Wuppertal in 2013-2014.

He is also known for his translation of a short story “Awaragard” by Qurrat Ul Ain Haider, from transcribed Urdu to German, which has appeared in the DAAD German Studies in India, Journal in 2014.