K. Srilata

K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the British Council and The Poetry Society (India)) in 1998.[2] She has also been awarded the Unisun British Council Poetry Award (2007) and the Charles Wallace fellowship for a writing residency (2010).[3] Her debut novel Table for Four was long-listed in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize and released in 2011.[4]

Srilata K
Portrait of Srilata in 2016
Srilata in 2016
Born
Ranchi[1]
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)academic, poet, author

Career

Her first book of poems, Seablue Child, was published in 2000, followed by Arriving Shortly (2011).[5][6] Other poetry collections are Writing Octopus (2013) and Bookmarking the Oasis (2015).[7][8] She also translated from Tamil to English two millennia worth of poetry titled Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry - along with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Subashree Krishnaswamy.[9] Her other work includes a translation of R. Vatsala's Tamil novel Once there was a girl (Vattathul) and a translation of women's writing from the Self-Respect Movement The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History.[10][11] Yoda Press has published an Indo-Irish collaborative poetry anthology All the Worlds Between that she co-edited with Fiona Bolger. Srilata has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, at Sangam House and at the Yeonhui Art Space in Seoul. She was a Fulbright pre-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She co-curates the CMI Arts Initiative along with Madhavan Mukund and K.V. Subrahmanyam, apart from hosting a writing residency in partnership with Sangam House. Srilata is also part of the team that runs Yavanika Press, an e-publishing site specializing in poetry.

She is also a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where she teaches Creative Writing, Fiction, Advanced English and Translation Studies.[12] She is adjunct professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute.[13]

Bibliography

Collections
  • Bookmarking the Oasis, Mumbai: Paperwall/Poetrywala, 2015, ISBN 9789382749295
  • Writing Octopus, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2013, ISBN 978-81-7273-785-6
  • Arriving Shortly, Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2011, ISBN 978-93-5045-015-4
  • Seablue Child, the Brown Critique, Kolkata, 2002.
  • The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India (2013) ed. by Dr Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada.[14]
  • "For [Jeanne Mukuninwa]", "What father left us", and "Gomati",The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry (ed. [Sudeep Sen]), India, 2013, ISBN 978-93-5029-517-5
  • Another Country: An Anthology of Post-Independence Poetry in English, (ed. [Arundhathi Subramaniam]), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2013, ISBN 978-81-260-4067-4
  • "England, 1999", "A Somewhat Different Question", and "I Wear Wordlessness like a Tattered Dress", Caravan, February 2013,[15]
  • "Poem Walk", Kavya Bharati, 2011, No. 23
  • "Drunken, Gasping Fish-lungs", "Mining", and "Slow Trot", Muse India, Issue 63[16]
  • "A Brief History of Writing", and "Gravity", Prairie Schooner 87, no. 2, 2013[17]
  • "Mazhai/Rain", Sonic Boom, Issue 3, 2014[18]

Novels
  • Table for Four, New Delhi: Penguin, 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-306819-8

Stories
  • "You Expert Woman, You", Guftugu, May 2017[19]
  • "Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers", The Punch Magazine, April 2017[20]
  • "Rainbow Loom Bracelet", Out of Print, September 2015[21]
  • "Cousin, Newly Acquired", Madras Mag, October 2014[22]
  • "These Things Happen if You Don't Watch it", Volume 28, Issue 3, Wasafiri, 2013[23]
  • "Game of Asylum Seekers", Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (edited by Anil Menon and Vandana Singh), Zubaan, 2012, ISBN 978-93-81017-04-3
  • "Sarasu", the Little Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2004; First Impressions: Stories and Plays Shortlisted for the TLM New Writing Award, 2006 (the Little Magazine, New Delhi, 2006), Other People: The Sangam House Reader Vol. I, Sangam House 2011
  • "State of Whiteness", The Shrinking Woman and Other Stories, Bangalore: Unisun, 2009
  • "How Do I Love Thee?: Let Me Count the Ways", The Penguin Book of New Writing From India 2: First Proofs, New Delhi: Penguin, 2006

Translations
  • The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (co-edited with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Subashree Krishnaswamy), New Delhi: Penguin India, 2009.
  • Once There Was a Girl (translation of the Tamil novel Vattathul by R.Vatsala), Kolkata: Writers Workshop,2012,[24] ISBN 978-93-5045-027-7

Academic/Editing
  • The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2003, ISBN 978-81-86706-50-3
  • Short Fiction from South India, (co-edited with Subashree Krishnaswamy), New Delhi: OUP, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-569246-4

References
  1. Choudhury, Chandrahas (2005) First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India, Volume 2. Penguin, Delhi. p. 152 ISBN 978-0-14-400107-1
  2. "Comp8". Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  3. "Literature and Languages – University of Stirling". english.stir.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. "Man Asian Literary Prize | Man Asian Literary Prize website and entry form". Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  5. "Experience has no theme". The Hindu. 1 October 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  6. "Madras, my dear". The Hindu. 29 August 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  7. Parthasarathy, Anusha (11 November 2013). "Penning verse". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  8. Daftuar, Swati (13 February 2016). "A kaleidoscope of colours". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  9. "Voices in verse - Livemint". livemint.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  10. Daftuar, Swati (6 October 2012). "First Look — New English books". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  11. "Troubling questions". The Hindu. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  12. "Department of Humanities and Social Sciences". www.hss.iitm.ac.in. Archived from the original on 22 November 2011.
  13. "Chennai Mathematical Institute". cmi.ac.in. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  14. "The Dance of the Peacock : An Indo/English Poetry Anthology". Hidden Brook Press ( Canada ). Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  15. "Three Poems: England, 1999, A Somewhat Different Question, I Wear Wordlessness like a Tattered Dress". The Caravan. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  16. Srilata, K. (March–April 2016). "Muse India". Muse India (66).
  17. Srilata, K. (1 January 2013). "A Brief History of Writing, and: Gravity". Prairie Schooner. 87 (2): 79–80. doi:10.1353/psg.2013.0053. S2CID 71995178.
  18. "Sonic Boom Journal | Home".
  19. "Guftugu |You Expert Woman, You". Guftugu. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  20. Srilata, K. (30 April 2017). "Mynah Hands, Flying Fingers". thepunchmagazine.com/. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  21. "Rainbow Loom Bracelet by K Srilata; Online Short Story; Out of Print Magazine; September 2015". outofprintmagazine.co.in. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  22. "Short fiction by K. Srilata". The Madras Mag. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  23. Srilata, K. (1 September 2013). "These Things Happen If You Don't Watch It". Wasafiri. 28 (3): 64–68. doi:10.1080/02690055.2013.802452. S2CID 161810947.
  24. Daftuar, Swati (6 October 2012). "First Look — New English books". The Hindu.

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