APPADURAI MUTTULINGAM is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and essayist. His short stories in Tamil have received critical acclaim and won awards in both India and Sri Lanka. His first collection of short stories, Akka was published in 1964. He left Sri Lanka in 1972 and spent the next twenty-eight years working in various countries in Africa and Asia, including assignments with the World Bank and the United Nations. He began writing again in 1995, and published more than twenty-five collections of stories, essays, interviews, and a novel to critical acclaim. Most recently, his story ‘Somewhere it’s Three O’clock Right Now’ was a finalist for the Armory Square Prize.

About the translator

KAVITHA MURALIDHARAN is a bilingual journalist and translator working in Tamil and English. She has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, and has extensively covered the Sri Lankan civil war. Along with Nandini Murali, she translated Perumal Murugan’s Amma in 201