N. Prabhakaran (tr. Jayasree Kalathil)

N. PRABHAKARAN is a major contemporary writer in Kerala and a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn in Malayalam literature. He has published over forty works of novels, poetry, plays, short story collections, essays and a memoir. He is the recipient of several honours including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; the EMS Memorial Trust Award; the Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Memorial Trust Award; the Malayatoor Award; the Odakkuzhal Award; and the Muttathu Varky Literary Award for Contributions to Malayalam literature. Diary of a Malayali Madman, translated by Jayasree Kalathil, won the 2019 Crossword Book Award. Jayasree Kalathil is the author of The Sackclothman, a children's book that has been translated into Malayalam, Hindi and Telugu. She shared the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020 with S. Hareesh for her translation of his novel, Moustache. She is a recipient of the Crossword Book Award for Indian Language Translation and the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Prize. Her translation of Sheela Tomy's Valli (2022) was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature, the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Award in Prose, and the Atta Galatta?Bangalore Literature Festival Book of the Year Award. Originally from Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, Jayasree currently lives in a small village in the New Forest in England.