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Sangeetha Sreenivasan is a novelist, children's writer, translator, Guitarist and teacher from Kerala, India. She writes in Malayalam and English and also translates into both languages. In 2020, she received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation for Upekshikkappetta Dinangal, the Malayalam translation of the novel The Days of Abandonment by Italian author Elena Ferrante. She is the daughter of writer activist Sarah Joseph.Sangeetha first started writing in English. In 2004, one of her story was published in Indian Literature magazine. Her first short story collection in English, Penguins Who Lost the March was published by Yathi books. She later wrote two children's books, Vellimeenchattam and Kallithallakal Vs Sinkakkuttikal. Aparakanthi is Sangeetha's first novel. She later translated her second novel Acid in Malayalam, to English. She says she wants to write about women's lives without a barrier and about women's sexuality. She says that her mother's influence on her writing and life is immense.