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K. Srilata Poet India
A poet, fiction writer and translator, Srilata is Associate Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Her debut novel Table for Four, long listed in 2009 for the Man Asian literary prize, was published by Penguin in July 2011. Writers Workshop, Kolkata recently published her collection of poems titled Arriving Shortly. Her books include The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (2003), Short Fiction from South India (co-edited with Subashree Krishnaswamy, 2007), Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (co-edited with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Subashree Krishnaswamy, 2009) and an anthology of poetry titled Seablue Child (2000). Srilata was a Charles Wallace Writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland in 2010. She was also a Sangam house writer-in-residence.
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