S Thillainayagam, retired from M.S.University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India as Professor of English.  He has edited Sundara Ramasamyin Thernthedutha Katturaigal for the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. His translations from Tamil to English include A.K. Chettiar’s In the Tracks of the Mahatma for Orient Longman, New Delhi, Kalaignar Karunanithi’s Ponnar-Sankar for Macmillan, Password and Other Stories of A.Muttulingam for Ratna Books, Delhi and Pichamurtyin Selected Short Stories for the Sahitya Akademi. The last one won for him the greatly acclaimed Nalli-Thisai-Ettum Award for the best Tamil-to-English translation of the year 2019.