Sangeetha Sreenivasan

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Sangeetha Sreenivasan
Born (1975-07-19) July 19, 1975 (age 48)
Mulankunnathukavu, Thrissur district, Kerala
OccupationShort story writer, novelist
NationalityIndian
Notable worksAcid
Notable awards Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation
SpouseP. K. Sreenivasan
Children1
Parents Sarah Joseph (author)
Kottakkal Joseph

Sangeetha Sreenivasan is a novelist, children's writer, translator, Guitarist and teacher from Kerala, India. She writes in Malayalam and English and also translates into both languages. In 2020, she received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation for Upekshikkappetta Dinangal, the Malayalam translation of the novel The Days of Abandonment by Italian author Elena Ferrante. She is the daughter of writer activist Sarah Joseph.

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Biography

Sangeetha was born on July 19, 1975, in Mulankunnathkavu in Thrissur district of Kerala to writer Sarah Joseph and the public activist Kottakkal Joseph. [1] She is known in various fields of literature like novel, children's literature, translation and also is a guitarist and teacher. [2] She who holds a master's degree in English Literature from Kerala Verma College, Thrissur works as a teacher in the Kerala Government Higher Secondary Department.

Personal life

Sangeetha and her husband architect P. K. Sreenivasan have one daughter, Medha Sreenivasan. [3]

Literary career

Sangeetha first started writing in English. [4] In 2004, one of her story was published in Indian Literature magazine. [4] Her first short story collection in English, Penguins Who Lost the March was published by Yathi books. [4] She later wrote two children's books, Vellimeenchattam and Kallithallakal Vs Sinkakkuttikal. Aparakanthi is Sangeetha's first novel. [4] She later translated her second novel Acid in Malayalam, to English. [4] She says she wants to write about women's lives without a barrier and about women's sexuality. [5] She says that her mother's influence on her writing and life is immense. [5]

Receptions

Methil Radhakrishnan has dedicated his book Methil Kavithakal to Sangeetha and wrote "to my best friend who wrote the book Penguin Who Lost the March" in the introduction. [4]

Actor and director Madhupal decided to make her novel Aparakanthi into a film and Sangeetha wrote the script as per his request but due to some circumstances the film was later cancelled. [5]

Novel Acid

Sangeetha's most critically acclaimed novel is Acid, originally written in Malayalam and later translated to English. Sonali Majumdar from Hindustan Times wrote Acid as a tempestuous and turbulent trip, which is hallucinogenic, haywire, and is filled with a melancholia that is hard to shake off. [6] Writer K. R. Meera in a review published in The Hindu, wrote that the book is likely a first book to go deep into unapologetic handling of same-sex affinity between two women. [7] In a review published in The Telegraph India, S. D. Chaudary states that, as the possessor of a loneliness unique to each character, the novel does not deny the complexities of life that the characters go through. [8] She also wrote that the image used to describe the emptiness of the characters is strong. [8] Apoorva Sripathi of Scroll.in describes Acid as a hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood. [9] Rahul Radhakrishnan from Indian express writes that, in Acid, Sangeetha combines the life of insecure characters with Middle-class urban life, nuclear family unrest, marital discomfort, variations of sexuality, the intensity of intoxication, the new generation of definitions of human relationships, and above all, the colors, rhythms, and stumbles of a metropolis that never sets at night. [10]

Works

Novels

Translations

Short story collection

Awards and honors

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