| Lakshmi Holmström லட்சுமி ஹோம்ஸ்ட்ராம் | |
| Birth Date: | 1935 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Salem, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Death Place: | Norwich, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Author, translator in English |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford University of Madras |
| Period: | 1973–2016 |
| Genre: | Tamil – English translation |
| Subject: | Women, classical and contemporary literature |
| Notableworks: | Sangati (trans.) Karukku (trans.) In a Forest, A Deer |
Lakshmi Holmström MBE (; 1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016[1] [2]) was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as Mauni, Pudhumaipithan, Ashoka Mitran, Sundara Ramasami, C. S. Lakshmi, Bama, and Imayam.
She obtained her undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Madras and her postgraduate degree from University of Oxford. Her postgraduate work was on the work of R. K. Narayan.
She settled in the United Kingdom and was the founder-trustee of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) – an organisation archiving the work of British writers and artists of South Asian origin.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
From 2003 to 2006 she was a Fellow of The Royal Literary Fund at University of East Anglia in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2011 for services to literature.
She died of cancer on 6 May 2016 in Norwich, aged 80.
| 1973 | Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R. K. Narayan | Criticism | Author | Writers Workshop, Calcutta | |
| 1990 | The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women | Short story anthology | Editor | Virago Press, London | |
| 1992 | A Purple Sea(Original author: Ambai) | Short story anthology | Translator | Affiliated East-West Press | |
| 1994 | Writing from India: Figures in a Landscape | Editor | |||
| 1996 | Silappadikaram and Manimekalai (illustrated) | Epics | Translator | Orient Blackswan | |
| 2000 | Karukku(Original author: Bama) | Novel | Translator | Oxford University Press | |
| 2001 | Beasts of Burden(Original author: Imayam) | Novel | Translator | Manas | |
| Waves: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry Translated from Tamil | Anthology | Editor | |||
| 2002 | My father's Friend(Original author: Ashokamitran) | Anthology | Translator | Sahitya Akademi | |
| 2003 | Pudumaippittan Fictions | Anthology | Translator | Katha, Chennai | |
| That's It But(Original author: Sundara Ramaswamy) | Short fiction | ||||
| 2004 | Mauni A Writers' Writer | Criticism | Author | ||
| Waterness(Original author: Na Muthuswamy - Neermai) | Short story anthology | Translator | |||
| 2005 | Sangati(Original author: Bama) | Novel | Oxford University Press | ||
| Clarinda, a Historical Novel(Original author: A. Madhaviah) | Novel | Sahitya Akademi | |||
| 2006 | In A Forest, A Deer: Stories(Original author: Ambai) | Short story anthology | Katha, Chennai | ||
| 2009 | The Hour Past Midnight(Original author: Salma) | Novel | |||
| The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry: The rapids of a great river | Poetry anthology | Editor-translator | |||
| 2012 | A Second Sunrise(Original author: Cheran Rudramoorthy) | Poetry anthology | Translator(with Sascha Ebeling) | Navayana |