Katha Vilasam: The Story Within

S. Ramakrishnan is an influentially important writer of modern Tamil literature. He has written and published 10 novels, 20 collections of short stories, 60 collections of articles, 20 books for children, 3 books of translation and 9 plays. Born in 1966, he is a native of Mallankinar village of Virudhunagar district of Tamilnadu. His short stories are noted for their modern story-telling style in Tamil. He became a celebrated author to lakhs of readers through his series of articles published in Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan .Among the many important awards won by him are Sahitya Academy Award for 2018, Tagore Literary Award for his novel Yamam, Iyal Award for Lifetime Achivement from Canada, Maxim Gorky Award, Ganavani Award, and Periyar Award.

S. Ramakrishnan lives in Chennai with wife Chandra Prabha and sons Hariprasad and Akash.

P C Ramakrishna is a veteran theatre artiste and director, with 50 years in theatre.He is Past President of The Madras Players, the oldest English Theatre Company in India and is a voice- over professional. His is a familiar voice on documentaries, corporate and heritage films, children’s Talking Books etc. He has also translated several works of the noted Tamil novelist, Sivasankari.

Malini Seshadri is a writer, editor and translator with several years of experience in each of these areas. Apart from newspaper articles, she has a number of published works to her credit including text books for schools and colleges and many works of translation from Tamil to English.