In Conversation with Jeyamohan and Suchitra Ramachandran

About Jeyamohan
B. Jeyamohan is a pre-eminent writer in modern Tamil literature. His most significant work yet is a twenty-six-part reimagination of the Mahabharata called Venmurasu (The White Drum), one of the longest literary works in the world. Apart from other landmark novels such as Vishnupuram (1997) and Kotravai (2005), his body of work includes more than three hundred short stories, many volumes of literary criticism, biographies, travelogues, introductory texts to Indian and Western literature and essays on heritage and philosophy. He has received many honours, including the Akilan Memorial Prize, the Katha Samman, the Sanskriti Samman, and the Iyal Award (Canada).
About Suchitra Ramachandran
Suchitra Ramachandran writes fiction in Tamil and translates between Tamil and English. Her work has appeared in journals such as Asymptote and Narrative Magazine. The Abyss is her first full-length translated work to be published. Suchitra lives in Basel, Switzerland.
Team P3 spoke to them about their latest book, The Abyss (Published by Juggernaut, 2023)
You can check the book here: amzn.to/3SWVqD2
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