page_title: K. Srilata
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caption_attribution_description: Portrait of poet K. Srilata
context_page_description: K. Srilata is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition in 1998. She has also been awarded the Unisun British Council Poetry Award and the Charles Wallace fellowship for a writing residency. Her debut novel Table for Four was long-listed in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize and released in 2011.
  Her first book of poems, Seablue Child, was published in 2000, followed by Arriving Shortly. More recent poetry collections are Writing Octopus and Bookmarking the Oasis. She had earlier translated from Tamil to English two millennia worth of poetry titled Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry - along with Lakshmi Holmstrom, Subashree Krishnaswamy to much critical acclaim. Her other translations include a translation of R. Vatsala's Tamil novel Once there was a girl and a translation of women's writing from the Self-Respect Movement The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History. Yoda Press has published an Indo-Irish collaborative poetry anthology All the Worlds Between that she co-edited with Fiona Bolger.
context_section_description: K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the British Council and The Poetry Society (India)) in 1998. She has also been awarded the Unisun British Council Poetry Award (2007) and the Charles Wallace fellowship for a writing residency (2010). Her debut novel Table for Four was long-listed in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize and released in 2011.
  Her first book of poems, Seablue Child, was published in 2000, followed by Arriving Shortly (2011). More recent poetry collections are Writing Octopus (2013) and Bookmarking the Oasis (2015).  She had earlier translated from Tamil to English two millennia worth of poetry titled Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry - along with Lakshmi Holmstrom, Subashree Krishnaswamy to much critical acclaim. Her other translations include a translation of R. Vatsala's Tamil novel Once there was a girl (Vattathul) and a translation of women's writing from the Self-Respect Movement The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History. Yoda Press has published an Indo-Irish collaborative poetry anthology All the Worlds Between that she co-edited with Fiona Bolger. Srilata has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, at Sangam House and at the Yeonhui Art Space in Seoul. She was a Fulbright pre-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She co-curates the CMI Arts Initiative along with Madhavan Mukund and K.V. Subrahmanyam which runs programmes and short-term courses in the arts, apart from hosting a writing residency in partnership with Sangam House. Srilata is also part of the team that runs Yavanika Press, an e-publishing site specializing in poetry.
  She is also a professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where she researches and teaches Creative Writing, Fiction, Advanced English and Translation Studies. She is adjunct professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute.
caption: Srilata in 2016