Fathima E V, is the co-translator (along with Nandakumar K) of M Mukundan’s Delhi: A Soliloquy, which was awarded the JCB Prize for Literature 2021. She has received the Crossword Prize for English translation 2017, and the V Abdulla Translation Award 2017, for her debut translation, A Preface to Man, translated from Subash Chandran’s novel Manushayanu Oru Aamugham. Her other translations include Baby Doll: Stories of Gracy, which was on the longlist of the inaugural She The People Women Writer’s Prize 2022. She was shortlisted for the inaugural PEN UK translation grant 22, for The Subaltern Spectre, her forthcoming translation of P F Mathews’ Adiyala Pretham.
Fathima, a former Associate Professor of English in Kerala Govt Service, is currently a visiting faculty at Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Kerala.