Dr Jayasree Kalathil is a writer and translator based in London. She is the author of the children’s book, The Sackclothman, which has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Jayasree’s translation of S. Hareesh’s Moustache won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020. Her translation of N. Prabhakaran’s Diary of a Malayali Madman won…

S. Hareesh won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature for his debut novel Moustache, translated from the Malayalam (Meesha) by Jayasree Kalathil. The novel also received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. He is the author of three short-story collections: Adam (which also received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award), Rasavidyayude Charithram, and Appan. He is a…

Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari lives in a small town called Areekode, near Calicut, Kerala. He completed his BA from Aligarh Muslim University and MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half (2024), represented by A Suitable Agency, has taken the literary world by storm, earning…

Julia Hauser is an assistant professor of global history at the University of Kassel, Germany, and an alumna of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), which, through the German Ministry of Science and Education, funds the project presented here (applied for in conjunction with Tarek Tawfiq, Cairo). She is a cultural historian…

Sarnath Banerjee has written five books of graphic fiction. Corridor (Penguin, 2004), The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers (Penguin, 2007), The Harappa Files (Harper Collins, 2011) and All Quiet in Vikaspuri (Harper Collins, 2015) and finally Doab Dil (Penguin, 2019). In collaboration with historians, Banerjee had produced Liquid History of Vasco Da Gama for the Kochi…