Suchitra Ramachandran

Suchitra Ramachandran is a writer and translator. She writes fiction in Tamil and translates between Tamil and English. Her work has appeared in journals including Asymptote and Narrative Magazine. She won the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize for Fiction Translation in 2017. Suchitra was selected under the South Asia Speaks mentorship programme for 2022, where she was mentored by Arunava Sinha. ‘The Abyss’, a translation of Tamil writer B.Jeyamohan’s novel ‘Ezhaam Ulagam‘ her first full-length translated work was published by Juggernaut Books in 2023. ‘Oli‘ (January 2020), a collection of short stories marked her debut as a writer in Tamil. Suchitra lives in Basel, Switzerland.