Appadurai MuttulingamAPPADURAI MUTTULINGAM was born in Kokuvil, Sri Lanka. A chartered accountant by profession, his literary career started at the age of nineteen when he won the first prize in the All Ceylon Tamil Short Story Competition conducted by Thinakaran, a natinal newspaper. He has published eleven short story collections, six essay collections, two interview collections, two novels and edited an anthology of book reviews. He has won the Tamil Nadu Government (India) Award for Vamsa Viruthi, Sri Lanka Government Literary Award for Vadakku Veethi, Ananda Vikatan India Award 2012 and S.R.M. University (India) Literary Award 2013. He also won the Markham City Council, Canada Literary Award 2014. A selection of short stories translated into English under the title Inauspicious Times was published in 2008. His short story 'The American Girl' was included in the book Many Roads through Paradise, an anthology published by Penguin Books in 2014. The same story was included in Uprooting the Pumpkin, an anthology published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He lives with his wife Ranjini in Markham, Canada. Read More Read Less