Writers Workshop mourns the passing of William Radice (1951-2024), British poet, scholar and translator. He taught Bengali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Radice translated celebrated Bengali works such as Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry and stories, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad. He edited Myths and Legends of India, a collection of 112 of his own retellings, including selections from our publication, P. Lal’s transcreation of The Mahabharata of Vyasa. A dear friend, Dr Radice published four volumes of poetry with Writers Workshop: Selected Poems, 1970–81 (1987), Before and After (1995), This Theatre Royal (2004) and Beauty, Be My […]