Awards

Recipient

• KATHA Translation Award 1997

• Pudumaipithan Memorial Award 2015 for contribution to Tamil literature through translations

• Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize 2022 (English) for Poonachi: The Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan

Prize Lists

Manasarovar by Ashokamitran (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Shortlisted for Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Translation) – 2010

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Farewell, Mahatma by Devibharathi (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Canada’s Tamil Literary Garden’s Iyal Award for Tamil-English Translation – 2015
   Shortlisted for Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Translation) – 2015

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The Goat Thief by Perumal Murugan (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Shortlisted for Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize (Fiction) – 2018
   Shortlisted for Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Translation) – 2017

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Poonachi: The Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2018
   Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Fiction 2018
   Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
   US Edition longlisted for National Book Foundation Awards 2020 (Translated Literature)

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Heat by Poomani (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Shortlisted for Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize (Fiction) – 2019
   Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Fiction 2019

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Breaking Free by Vaasanthi (tr: N Kalyan Raman)

   Shortlisted for Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize (Fiction) – 2022

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