Bama

About Bama

Bama, also known as Bama Faustina Soosairaj, is a Tamil Dalit feminist, teacher, novelist and short story writer. She has been in the forefront of caste literature activism. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, Ideas Books, Madurai, 1992, Kalachuvadu Publications, 2014, translated by Lakshmi Holmström, Oxford University Press, 2014. Her other novels are Sangati, 1994, also translated by Lakshmi Holmström as Events, Oxford University Press, 2008, and Vanmam, 2002, translated as Vendetta by Malini Seshadri, Oxford University Press, 2008. Her collections of short stories include and Oru Tattvum Erumaiyum, 2003, and Thavattu Kuruvi, 2019. She is one of the Founder Trustees of the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive, now the South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive.