V. Ramaswamy

V. Ramaswamy is a Kolkata-based Bengali to English literary & non-fiction translator of voices from the margins. His translations include the two short story collections, The Golden Gandhi Statue from America and Wild Animals Prohibited, and This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar’s Tale: Two Anti-Novels, all by Subimal MIsra, the novel, The Runaway Boy, by Manoranjan Byapari, Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas, by Shahidul Zahir, and Memories of Arrival, by Adhir Biswas. Ramaswamy was awarded the inaugural Literature Across Frontiers – Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in Creative Writing & Translation at Aberystwyth University in 2016, and the inaugural Translation Fellowship of the New India Foundation.