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Lakshmi Holmstromis a writer and tranlator, who studied at Madras and Oxford. She is the author of Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R.K. Narayan (Calcutta: Writers' Workshop, 1973), editor of The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women (London: Virga, 1990), and co-editor of Writing from India (Cambridge University Press, 1994), a collection of stories from India for readers aged 14-16. Her retelling of the fifth-century Tamil narrative poems Silappadikaram and Manimekalai was published in 1996 (Madras: Orient Longman). Her main work has been translating the short stories and novels of the major contemporary writers in Tamil: Mauni, Pudumaippittan, Ashokamitran, Sundara Ramaswamy, Ambai, Baama and Imayam. In 2000 she received the Crossword Book Award in India, for her translation of Karukku by Bama. Founder-Trustee of Salidaa (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive). Royal Literary Fund writing fellow, University of East Anglia, 2003-5.

Lakshmi Holmstromis a writer and tranlator, who studied at Madras and Oxford. She is the author of Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R.K. Narayan (Calcutta: Writers' Workshop, 1973), editor of The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women (London: Virga, 1990), and co-editor of Writing from India (Cambridge University Press, 1994), a collection of stories from India for readers aged 14-16. Her retelling of the fifth-century Tamil narrative poems Silappadikaram and Manimekalai was published in 1996 (Madras: Orient Longman). Her main work has been translating the short stories and novels of the major contemporary writers in Tamil: Mauni, Pudumaippittan, Ashokamitran, Sundara Ramaswamy, Ambai, Baama and Imayam. In 2000 she received the Crossword Book Award in India, for her translation of Karukku by Bama. Founder-Trustee of Salidaa (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive). Royal Literary Fund writing fellow, University of East Anglia, 2003-5.