Jeyamohan Follow

Jeyamohan is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagercoil, India. One of India’s finest authors writing today, his work examines and reinterprets India’s rich literary and classical traditions. A prolific writer, his output includes multiple novels, short stories, volumes of literary criticism, writer biographies, introductory texts to Indian and Western literature, books on philosophy, and numerous other translations and collections.

Priyamvada Ramkumar is a translator from Tamil to English. Her debut translation was Jeyamohan’s Stories of the True, originally published in English in India. Take Me Back, her translation of A. Muttulingam’s short story "Ennai Thirupi Edu," was published in Spillwords Press, an online literary magazine. She has been awarded a 2022 ALTA Emerging Translator’s Mentorship as well as a 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her work on Jeyamohan’s White Elephant. She lives in Chennai, India.