Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, novelist, and translator. Her books include the poetry collections Touch and Ms. Militancy and three novels, The Gypsy Goddess , When I Hit You , and Exquisite Cadavers . Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and the Hindu Lit Prize. The Book of Desire , her translation of the love poetry of the two thousand-year-old Tamil classic Tirukkural, was published in 2023.

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, novelist, and translator. Her books include the poetry collections Touch and Ms. Militancy and three novels, The Gypsy Goddess , When I Hit You , and Exquisite Cadavers . Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize, and the Hindu Lit Prize. The Book of Desire , her translation of the love poetry of the two thousand-year-old Tamil classic Tirukkural, was published in 2023. See less