T. D. RAMAKRISHNAN is a novelist, translator and screenwriter. He has won several awards for his work, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and the Vayalar Award. The English translation of his novel Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanyaki was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He served as Chief Controller of the Southern Railways and received the National Award for Outstanding Performance from the Ministry of Railways in 2003.
PRIYA K.
NAIR is Assistant Professor in English at St Teresa's College in Kerala. She has previously translated T. D. Ramakrishnan's novels Francis Itty Cora and Sugandhi Alias Andal Deva Nayaki into English. The latter was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019. She has also translated Dr B. Umadathan's autobiography, Dead Men Tell Tales: The Memoir of a Police Surgeon.