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Charu Nivedita is the author of nearly hundred works in Tamil, ranging from collections of essays to novels, anthologies of poetry to short stories - Marginal Man, To Byzantium: A Turkey Travelogue, Unfaithfully Yours, Morgue Keeper and Towards a Third Cinema. He experiments with writing forms and satirises his early struggles and foray into writing in his auto-fiction novels. These have been critically acclaimed and translated into different languages. His most popular work, Zero Degree, has been included in university syllabi across the globe and some of his other works have been part of prestigious curations. ‘Conversations with Aurangazeb: A Novel’ is the latest translation of his work which won a grant at the inaugural PEN Presents translation competition.