Priyamvada Ramkumar & Suchitra Ramachandran

Based in Chennai, India, Priyamvada Ramkumar translates from Tamil to English. Her debut translation of Jeyamohan’s Stories of the True has been longlisted for the 2023 ALTA-NTA Prose Award. She won a 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for White Elephant, a novel by the same author. She can be found at priyamvada_ram on X/Twitter.

Suchitra Ramachandran is a bilingual writer and translator. The Abyss, her debut book-length translation of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel was published this year to critical acclaim. She won the 2017 Asymptote Close Approximations Fiction Prize for Periyamma’s Words, a short story by the same author. She can be found at artisuch on X/Twitter.