Poets and Speakers

N. Sukumaran
Foto: Goethe-Institut / Roy Sinai
N. Sukumaran was born in Coimbatore in 1957. He is an acclaimed poet, translator, writer and editor and currently resides in Thiruvananthapuram.

He has published 6 volumes of poems , 6 volumes of essays and articles and a novel in Tamil. He has translated several works including selected works of eminent writers such as Vaikkam Mohammed Basheer, Zachariah, K. Satchidanandan , Adoor Gopalakrishnan from Malayalam into Tamil. He has also translated works of Pablo Neruda, Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alessandro Barrico, Ayfer Tunc and others from English into Tamil. The translated works have been published in 15 books.

N. Sukumaran was the Editor for Kungumam - Tamil magazine and Chief Editor for Surya TV. Currently he is Executive Editor for Kalachuvadu - an alternative magazine in Tamil.

Poems

வம்ச புராணம் /
Ahnenchronik


கடலினும் பெரிது /
Ein gewaltigeres Meer


பெருந்தகையே, உமது ஆக்ஞை! /
zu befehl, eure hoheit!