Granta’s best untranslated writers: Shobasakthi
1 min readShobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate. Based in France, he writes about Sri Lanka in Tamil, his native language (and the native language of my parents). I read Tamil, but not yet well enough to get through the original versions of his books; instead, I use popular English translations by Anushiya Ramaswamy. I finished his novelGorilla very shortly before meeting him; I read another, Traitor, many years after that initial conversation.
