Priya A. S.
Priya A. S. is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. She writes short stories, children's literature, translations and memoirs. She has translated Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" into Malayalam under the title "Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran" of which Roy herself has said that although there have been translations in several languages, no other translation is as important to her as this, as it is the language of the novel's central characters. Biography. Priya A. S. was born on May 28, 1967 at Eramalloor, near Cherthala, in Alappuzha district of the south Indian state  of Kerala to a teacher couple, K. R. Sadashivan Nair and Anandavalli. She had a difficult childhood due to various diseases, and after schooling, she graduated in English literature from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam before securing a master's degree by private education. She has served at Mahatma Gandhi University and is a senior grade assistant at Cochin University of Science and Technology. Priya is married to Unni and they have a son, Tanmoy alias Kunjunni. Awards. "Manjamarangal Chuttilum", a short story anthology, fetched Priya her first major award, Lalithambika Anterjanam Award for the best young woman writer in 2003 . Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected "Jagarooka", another of her short story anthology, for their annual award for story in 2004 and a decade later, the academy honoured her again with the 2014 Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation for "Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran", the translation of The God of Small Things; in between she received the Siddhartha Literary Award in 2012 for her work for children, "Ammem Kunjunneem Kunjunneem Ammem". She has received another award from Kerala Sahitya Akademi, the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Endowment for Children's Literature for "Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu" and a host of other honours such as State Bank of India Literray  Award, V. K. Unnikrishnan Award for Translation, Grihalakshmi Award, Ankanam Sahitya Award and Ramu Kariat Award. She was awarded 2020 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature for her work Perumazhayathe Kunjithalukal.