The Abyss, Transit Books, 2026
The US edition of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel Ezham Ulagam, translated into English.
Starred review from Publisher’s Weekly (A masterpiece!)
Sam Sacks – review in The Wall Street Journal
Joseph Schreiber at Rough Ghosts
The Daughter of Kumari, Juggernaut, 2023
An English translation of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel Kumarithuraivi.
The Abyss, Juggernaut Books, 2023
An English translation of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel Ezham Ulagam.
Finalist – American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)’s First Translation Prize 2024
Judges’ citation: This unsettling, unforgettable Tamil novel about a seemingly respectable man who runs a cartel of beggars finds beauty, humor, and insight in the most difficult places. Originally published in 2003 and adapted into a 2009 film, Jeyamohan’s narrative is harrowing yet luminous, distilling the rawness of lived experience into a wrenching meditation on survival, violence, cruelty, and the ironies of how certain bodies are marginalized and rendered at once invisible and hyper-visible in all the wrong ways. Suchitra Ramachandran’s dazzling translation sings in shadows and light, carefully framing Jeyamohan’s work and conveying the complexity of his vision with a clarity that does not sacrifice the novel’s eccentricity.
ஒளி, யாவரும் பதிப்பகம், 2020
சிறுகதை தொகுப்பு | Short Story Collection
வாசகசாலை சிறந்த அறிமுக எழுத்தாளர் விருது பெற்ற நூல் | Recipient of Vasagasalai, Chennai’s award for best debut work
சாஹித்ய அகாடமியின் யுவ புரஸ்கார் 2021: குறும்பட்டியல் | On the shortlist for Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puraskar 2021
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