Padma Narayanan

Padma Narayanan (b. 1935) is a short-story writer and a prolific translator of Tamil literary fiction into English. Her works include the anthology Along with the Sun (2020), Aadhavan’s I, Ramaseshan (2008), La. Sa. Ramamritham’s Apeetha (2014), Indira Parthasarathy’s Poison Roots (2014), Ramamritham’s The Stone Laughs and Atonement (2005), and two collections of short stories by Appadurai Muttulingam (2009 and 2017).

Her works have appeared in Agni (Boston) and Words Without Borders, among others. Her translation of Dilip Kumar’s ‘The Story of a Clerk’, published in Caravan in 2012, inspired a celebrated movie adaptation, Nasir (2020).

She has also translated some books from English into Tamil, and has written and spoken on the subject of translation. She lives in New Delhi.