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| name = Lakshmi Holmström

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| death_place = [[Norwich]], England

| occupation = Author, translator in English

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| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]<br>[[University of Madras]]

| period = 1973–2016

| genre = Tamil – English translation

| subject = Women, classical and contemporary literature

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| notableworks = ''Sangati (trans.)''<br />''Karukku (trans.)''<br />In a Forest, A Deer

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'''Lakshmi Holmström''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016<ref name=Guardian>Amanda Hopkinson, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/18/lakshmi-holmstrom-obituary "Lakshmi Holmström obituary"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 18 May 2016.</ref><ref name=MM>{{cite web|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Our-lady-of-Tamil-literature/articleshow/52169703.cms|title=Our lady of Tamil literature|work=Mumbai Mirror|accessdate=8 May 2016}}</ref>) was an Indian-British writer, [[literary critic]], and translator of [[Tamil Language|Tamil]] fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels of the contemporary writers in Tamil, such as [[Mowni|Mauni]], [[Pudhumaipithan]], [[Ashoka Mitran]], [[Sundara Ramasami]], [[C. S. Lakshmi]], [[Bama (writer)|Bama]], and [[Imayam]]. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the [[University of Madras]] and her postgraduate degree from [[University of Oxford]]. Her postgraduate work was on the works of [[R. K. Narayan]]. She was the founder-trustee of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) – an organisation for archiving the works of British writers and artists of South Asian origin. She lived in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Number of Great Indian Writers Are Not Known in the Rest of the World|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211410|work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook Magazine]]|author=Manoj Nair| date =23 April 2001| accessdate =5 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="rlf">{{cite news

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She was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |date=31 December 2010 |page=17 |supp=y }}</ref>

She died of cancer on 6 May 2016.<ref name=Guardian />

* ''Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R. K. Narayan'', Calcutta: Writers’ Workshop (1973)

* (ed.) ''The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women'', London:[[Virago Press]] (1990)

* (trans.) [[C. S. Lakshmi|Ambai]]'s ''A Purple Sea'', Affiliated East-West Press (1992)

* (ed.) ''Writing from India: Figures in a Landscape'', [[Cambridge University Press]] (1994)

* (trans.) [[Silappatikaram|Silappadikaram]]: [[Manimekalai]], [[Orient Longman|Orient Blackswan]] (1996)

* (trans.) Ashoka Mitran's ''My father's Friend'', [[Sahitya Akademi]] (2002)

* (trans.) [[Bama (writer)|Bama]]'s ''Karukku'', [[Oxford University Press]] (2000)

* (trans.) [[Imayam]]'s ''Beasts of Burden'', Manas (2001)

* (ed.) ''Waves: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry Translated from Tamil'', Manas (2001)

* (trans.) ''Pudumaipithan: Fictions'', Chennai: Katha (2003)

* (trans.) [[Sundara Ramaswamy]]'s ''That's It But'', Chennai:Katha (2003)

* ''Mauni: A Writers' Writer'', Chennai:Katha (2004)

* (trans.) Na Muthuswamy's ''Neermai'' (Waterness), Chennai:Katha (2004)

* (trans.) Bama's ''Sangati'', Oxford University Press (2005)

* (trans.) Madhavayya's ''Clarinda, a Historical Novel'', Sahitya Akademi (2005)

* (trans.) ''In A Forest, A Deer: Stories'' by Ambai, Chennai:Katha (2006)

* (trans.)Salma's ''The Hour Past Midnight'', [[Zubaan]] (2009)

* (ed.)(trans.) ''The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry: The rapids of a great river'', [[Penguin Books]] (2009)

* (trans.) [[Cheran Rudramoorthy]]'s ''A Second Sunrise'', [[Navayana]] (2012)

==Awards and Scholarships==

*2003–2006 Fellow, [[Royal Literary Fund|The Royal Literary Fund]] at [[University of East Anglia]]

*2007 ''Iyal Virudhu'' Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Canada-based Tamil Literary Garden

*2016 The A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for translation from a South Asian language, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for ''Children, Women and Men'', originally published as ''Kuzhandaigal, Pengal, Aangal'' by Sundara Ramaswamy, Penguin Books India

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