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Lakshmi Holmström MBE (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016[1][2]) was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as Mauni, Pudhumaipithan, Ashoka Mitran, Sundara Ramasami, C. S. Lakshmi, Bama, and Imayam. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Madras and her postgraduate degree from University of Oxford. Her postgraduate work was on the work of R. K. Narayan. She was the founder-trustee of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) – an organisation archiving the work of British writers and artists of South Asian origin. She lived in the United Kingdom.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Lakshmi Holmström
Holmström at 2013 Jaipur Literature Festival
Born	(1935-06-01)1 June 1935
Died	6 May 2016(2016-05-06) (aged 80) Norwich, England
Occupation	Author, translator in English
Alma mater	University of Oxford University of Madras
Period	1973–2016
Genre	Tamil – English translation
Subject	Women, classical and contemporary literature
Notable works	Sangati (trans.) Karukku (trans.) In a Forest, A Deer

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2011 for services to literature.[9]

She died of cancer on 6 May 2016.[1]

Bibliography

• Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R. K. Narayan, Calcutta: Writers Workshop (1973)
• (ed.) The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women, London:Virago Press (1990)
• (trans.) Ambai's A Purple Sea, Affiliated East-West Press (1992)
• (ed.) Writing from India: Figures in a Landscape, Cambridge University Press (1994)
• (trans.) Silappadikaram: Manimekalai, Orient Blackswan (1996)
• (trans.) Ashoka Mitran's My father's Friend, Sahitya Akademi (2002)
• (trans.) Bama's Karukku, Oxford University Press (2000)
• (trans.) Imayam's Beasts of Burden, Manas (2001)
• (ed.) Waves: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry Translated from Tamil, Manas (2001)
• (trans.) Pudumaipithan: Fictions, Chennai: Katha (2003)
• (trans.) Sundara Ramaswamy's That's It But, Chennai:Katha (2003)
• Mauni: A Writers' Writer, Chennai:Katha (2004)
• (trans.) Na Muthuswamy's Neermai (Waterness), Chennai:Katha (2004)
• (trans.) Bama's Sangati, Oxford University Press (2005)
• (trans.) Madhavayya's Clarinda, a Historical Novel, Sahitya Akademi (2005)
• (trans.) In A Forest, A Deer: Stories by Ambai, Chennai:Katha (2006)
• (trans.)Salma's The Hour Past Midnight, Zubaan (2009)
• (ed.)(trans.) The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry: The rapids of a great river, Penguin Books (2009)
• (trans.) Cheran Rudramoorthy's A Second Sunrise, Navayana (2012)

Awards and Scholarships

• 2000 Crossword Book Award in the Indian language fiction translation category for Karukku by Bama
• 2003–2006 Fellow, The Royal Literary Fund at University of East Anglia
• 2006 Crossword Book Award in the Indian language fiction translation category for In a Forest, A Deer by C. S. Lakshmi
• 2007 Iyal Virudhu Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Canada-based Tamil Literary Garden
• 2015 Crossword Book Award in the Indian language fiction translation category for Children, Women, Men by Sundara Ramaswamy[10]
• 2016 The A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for translation from a South Asian language, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for Children, Women and Men, originally published as Kuzhandaigal, Pengal, Aangal by Sundara Ramaswamy, Penguin Books India

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