Sithuraj Ponraj

Sithuraj Ponraj lives and works in Singapore. He writes in English, Tamil and Spanish. He was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) for Tamil prose fiction and Merit Prize for Tamil poetry in 2016. Sithuraj has written 2 novels, 3 short story collections, a collection of literary essays, 3 poetry collections and 2 YA books in Tamil from 2016-2020. He has currently completed his first English collection ('Keynesian Crocodiles') and untitled short story collection in English. Both will appear in late 2020. His novel 'The Wooden Elephant' and poetry collection "It is Easy to be an Italian" have both been shortlisted for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize in the Tamil prose and Tamil poetry categories respectively.