Thachom Poyil Rajeevan Follow

Thachom Poyil Rajeevan writes in English and Malayalam. He has published three poetry collections, He Who Was Gone Thus, A Yaksha in America and Kannaki, and a novel, Undying Echoes of Silence, in English, and six poetry collections, three novels, a travelogue and a collection of essays in Malayalam. He has also edited an anthology of poems, Third Word: Post Socialist Poetry, with the Croatian poet Lana Derkac. His novel K.T.N. Kottoor: Ezhuthum Jeevithavum won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award, and two of his novels were made into motion pictures in Malayalam. Rajeevan?s poems have been translated into more than 14 languages, including French, Italian, Polish, Macedonian, Uzbek, Croatian, Hebrew and Chinese. An alumnus of Iowa University?s International Writing Program, he has been a resident writer at Ledig House, Hudson, in New York, the Rockefeller Foundation?s Bellagio Center in Italy and the Shanghai Writers? Association in Shanghai.