Suchitra

இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: சுசித்ரா

Suchitra (Suchitra Ramachandran) (December 16, 1987) is a Tamil writer and translator. Suchitra writes short stories and reviews constantly, and also translates the publications from Tamil to English. Suchitra raises fundamental questions of existentialism in artistic and scientific contexts and discusses them in her writings. Her short story 'Oli” (Light), which takes life from the perspective of an European painter, received widespread attention from readers and critics.

Birth, Studies

Suchitra was born to Ramachandran and Janaki on December 16, 1987 at Mylapore in Chennai. She attended schools in Coonoor, Chennai, Vijayawada, Hyderabad and Madurai, and completed her schooling from T.V.S. Lakshmi Higher Secondary School, Madurai. Subsequently, Suchitra completed her engineering course at Kamaraj College, Virudhunagar.

Suchitra subsequently earned a doctorate in Neuroscience. She studied the ability of brain to learn on its own arrangement (statistical learning) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

Private Life

Suchitra married to Varun, a scientist on June 1, 2014 and they have a Son: Rakendu. Suchitra works as a scientist in a Switzerland laboratory and currently lives there with her family.

Publications

Suchitra quotes pioneers Ki. Rajanarayanan, Jayakanthan, Jayamohan, Ursula Le Quin and Isak Dinesen as her inspirations in literature, and her first work Kudai (Umbrella) (short story) was presented and discussed at the readers meet organized by Vishnupuram Readers Circle in 2017. This story was not published in magazines or in collections. Suchitra also writes science fiction stories and her science fiction short story Siragathirvu was the first one to get published in Padhaakai magazine in 2017.

Suchitra says about her stories in the foreword to Oli collection that 'I feel myself, not only in the tradition of my language but also in the great tradition of creating stories to make sense of this cosmic space through human mind. All moral value, valor, fury, grace, kindness, humanity, penance, beauty and omnipresence come through the story'.

Translation Works

• Jeyamohan's short story Periamma's Sorkal was translated to English as Periyamma’s Words and published in Asymptote magazine in 2017
• A. Muttulingam's Aattupal Puttu was translated to English and published in Narrative Magazine
• Translation of Jeyamohan's Devaki Chithiyin Diary