Pavithra Srinivasan

About Pavithra Srinivasan

Pavithra Srinivasan is a writer, journalist, artist, translator and editor – not necessarily in that order. She is fascinated with History, and writes children's fiction for adults. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and she is currently a historical-fiction columnist for Young World, The Hindu’s supplement for children. Her column is named Yester Tales.She also has a column in Culturama magazine, called Passage to India, where she writes historical fiction for an adult audience.She has to her credit a collection of historical short-stories for young adults, Little-Known Tales from Well-Known Times: Back to the BCs, Helios Books, 2011; the translation of Kalki’s epic historicals, Sivakamiyin Sabadham, Helios Books, 2012 and Ponniyin Selvan, Tranquebar Press, 2014. She has translated Jeffrey Archer’s short story collection, Mudivil oru Thiruppam, Westland, 2009, and Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy, Westland, 2014, 2015.