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Jayant Kaikini is a Kannada poet, short story writer, columnist, and playwright, as well as an award-winning lyricist and script and dialogue writer for Kannada films. He won his first Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award at the age of nineteen in 1974 and has since won the award three times, in addition to winning various other awards in India, including the first Kusumagraj Rashtriya Bhasha Sahitya Puraskar. 'No Presents Please', his volume of selected stories translated by Tejaswini Niranjana, is the first book in translation to have won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Tejaswini Niranjana won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for best translation of M. K. Indira's 'Phaniyamma' (1989) and the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for her translation of Niranjana's 'Mrityunjaya' (1996). She has also translated Pablo Neruda's poetry and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Kannada. Her translations into English include Vaidehi's Gulabi 'Talkies' (2006). She grew up in Bangalore and has studied and worked in Mumbai. She is currently professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. |
