Sri Lata K

A poet, fiction writer and translator, Srilata is Professor of English at IIT Madras. Srilata has four collections of poems, 'Bookmarking the Oasis' (Paperwall/Poetrywala, 2015), 'Writing Octopus' (Authorspress, 2013), 'Arriving Shortly' (Writers Workshop, 2011) and 'Seablue Child' (Brown Critique, 2002). She also co-edited the anthology 'The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry'. Srilata’s debut novel 'Table for Four', long listed in 2009 for the Man Asian literary prize, was published by Penguin. Her translation of R.Vatsala’s Tamil novel 'Vattathul (Once there was a girl)' was published in 2012. Srilata is co-editor of an Indo-Irish poetry anthology 'All the Worlds Between' forthcoming from Yoda Press. Srilata’s academic books include 'The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History' (Zubaan, 2002) and 'Short Fiction from South India' (OUP, 2008). Srilata was a writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, at Sangam house and at the Yeonhui Art Space in Seoul.