Susan Daniel

Susan Daniel is a Kerala born academic and Kannada-English translator who is settled now in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. For her English translation of Devanura Mahadeva's Kannada novel Kusumabale, she received many awards including the Karnataka Government's Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi award for best translator and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for the year 2019.

Early life and education Susan Daniel was born in Kerala and brought up in Karnataka. She studied literature from the University of Mysore. working as a professor of English literature.

While in Tamil Nadu, Daniel ran a press and edited a news magazine for the Nilgiris district, and also edited a translation magazine called Anuvada. The translated version of the novel was released by Oxford University Press in 2015.

After retirement, Daniel was involved in cross-cultural studies for students from the US, entrepreneurial activities related to education in the Nilgiris district, and a project to teach communication skills through drama to underprivileged children in Ooty. Susan Daniel has been awarded the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for her translation into English of Kusumabale. She also received many other awards including the Women's Day Award, Nilgiris 2020, and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Award 2021.