Jayanthi Sankar India/Singapore

Bio
Jayanthi has contributed to Singapore's Tamil Murasu newspaper as well as Tamil magazines in both India and other countries like the United States, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Malaysia. Born in Madurai in South India, she migrated to Singapore about 20 years ago. She has authored more than 20 books, which include five short story collections, four novels and one novelette collection. Her short story collection, Pin Seat, was shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize in 2008. She has won many other prizes and awards including the Thiruppoor Arima Sakthi Award (2007) and Thisai Ettum Literary Award (2009).


Who or what book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"All thanks the NLB, I have been an avid reader since 1990. I have read not only in Tamil, but also alot in English. They were mostly fiction and translations from other languages. There are hundreds of good authors among thousands of writers in Tamil. Like Chinese, Tamil is also another classic language. I intend to take this good opportunity to introduce some interesting works, characters and authors of Tamil to the readers."

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