Ajai P. Mangattu

Ajai P Mangattu is a well known novelist, essayist and translator in Malayalam. He lives between Kottayam and Kozhikode in Kerala. He completed his studies from the Maharajas College in Ernakulam, and started his career as a journalist in 1998.He is currently the assistant editor with Malayala Manorama, and has been writing literary criticism in various magazines in Malayalam for the last 25 years. His translations include Gail Ombedt’s Ambedkar-Towards an Enlightened India, Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elif Shafaq’s Forty Rules of Love. He has published books on the life and works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Noam Chomsky.

Catherine Thankamma is a writer and translator based in Kochi, Kerala. Narayan’ Kocharethi was her first full length translation which won the Crossword Book Award (2011). She has also translated Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode in 2019.