P. K. Radhamani

P. K. Radhamani is an Indian translator from Kerala. She has translated several works from Hindi to Malayalam and from Malayalam to Hindi. She won the 2023 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for the translation of Hindi writer Amrita Pritam's autobiography Aksharon Ke Saye into Malayalam as Aksharangalute Nizhalil.

Early life and education P. K. Radhamani was born in 1952 in Vaka in present-day Thrissur district of Kerala to P. R. Sarojini and P. K. Krishnan. She studied at Malathi U. P. School, Vaka, St. Francis High School, Mattam and Little Flower College, Guruvayur.

Her husband Karunan died within a month of her retirement from service in 2007. She says she turned to writing and reading to overcome the loneliness created by this death. Radhamani has translated Pradip Bihari's Sahitya Akademi Award-winning collection of Maithili language short stories into Malayalam under the title Bandhangal. This book has been published by Sahitya Akademi.

Selected works

Translations Into Malayalam

Into Hindi