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Padma Viswanathan
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Padma Viswanathan

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Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was published in eight countries, a bestseller in three, and a finalist for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize among others, and reissued in 2026 by Godine. Her second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, was published in four countries and shortlisted for Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2020, the New York Review Books published her first book-length translation, São Bernardo, by the late, lauded Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos. Padma’s next book was Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime, followed in 2024 by another translation, the book-length essay Where We Stand, by Brazilian public intellectual Djamila Ribeiro, and a hybrid novel, The Charterhouse of Padma. Her translation of On Earth As It Is Beneath, a contemporary horror story by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, was shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize, among others. Forthcoming: another Ana Paula Maia novel, Bury Your Dead, and The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories, co-edited with writer-translator Daniel Hahn. Distinguished Professor of fiction-writing, translation and international literature in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas, she has served on juries for the Governor General’s Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Neustadt Prize, the ASV Armory Square Prize for South Asian Fiction in Translation, the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and many others, as well as teaching for the Banff Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, the Bread Loaf Conferences, and elsewhere. Canadian by birth and temperament, she lives on a hilltop in Arkansas with the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock, plus kids and pets.
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