Kiran Nagarkar (tr. Shubha Slee)

KIRAN NAGARKAR is one of India's most highly-regarded writers. His critically acclaimed novel Cuckold won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000. Nagarkar received Germany's highest civilian award, the Order of Merit in 2012. Both the Tata Literature Live! and the Chandigarh Literary Fest gave him Lifetime Achievement Awards. His novels have been translated into German, French, Italian and Spanish. Saat Sakkam Trechalis won the H. N. Apte award for the best first novel of 1974. SHUBHA SLEE was born in 1937 and studied at Agra University. She moved to Australia in 1964 and unexpectedly passed away early in 1980.