A Fine Thread and other stories: Short stories - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

B. JEYAMOHAN (b. 1962), based in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, is a pre-eminent writer in modern Tamil literature. His most significant work yet is a twenty-six part romanfleuve called Venmurasu (The White Drum), a reimagination of the Mahabharata. Spanning more than twenty-five thousand pages in print, it is among 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 as well as essays on heritage and philosophy. He has received many honours, including the Akilan Memorial Prize for his first novel, and the Katha Samman, the Sanskrit Samman and the Iyal Award (Canada). He can be found at https://www.jeyamohan.in/

JEGADEESH KUMAR writes fiction in English and Tamil, and translates between Tamil and English. His own work and work in translation have appeared in The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, Defunct, Spillwords, The Piker Press, Impspired, and elsewhere. A Fine Thread and Other Stories is his first full-length translated work to be published. Jegadeesh lives in Walterboro, SC, United States of America.