Poet • Editor • Translator •

A J Thomas is an Indian English poet, editor, and translator with more than 20 books to his credit. He has translated works of illustrious Malayalam writers like O N V Kurup, Paul Zacharia and M Mukundan and edited books by U R Anantha Murthy. He served as the editor of the Sahitya Akademi’s journal ‘Indian Literature’ and co-edited the ‘Best of Indian Literature’. He is a recipient of Katha Award, AKMG Prize and Vodafone Crossword Award (2007). He holds a Senior Fellowship from the Department of Culture, Government of India and was an Honorary Fellow, Department of Culture, Government of South Korea. He was a Guest Speaker in several writers’ conferences and readings in South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Nepal. He has recently edited ‘The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told’, an anthology of 50 short stories, sourced from modern classics of Kerala.