
K.C. Ajayakumar
K.C. Ajayakumar (b.1964), recipient of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (2015) and Vishwa Hindi Samman (2018), has authored four novels in Malayalam. Widely known as a consummate translator from Hindi into Malayalam, his primer on Malayalam grammar won the Government of India Award (2000–01) for non-Hindi writers. His doctoral thesis on Indian nationalist novels in Hindi is a pioneering effort. Geetha Nair, the translator of this novel, has been teaching English, editing several books and translating from Malayalam into English for over three decades.





Books by K.C. Ajayakumar
