Mother's Invention
Perumal Murugan remembers Amma in his latest book.
I'd been waiting a couple of days to hear back from the writer Perumal Murugan, via an editor who promised to translate my questions into Tamil and his replies to English. That this kind of exchange is possible at all is amazing, and a sign of the vibrancy of India's blossoming translation scene. Murugan, the author of 11 novels (several translated to English), memoirs, short stories, poetry collections and more academic work, is one of this landscape's brightest blooms.
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