Jayasree Kalathil is a bilingual writer and translator, and the author of The Sackclothman, a children's book that has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and Urdu. Her translations have won the Crossword Book Award (twice), the JCB Prize for Literature, the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Award, the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award, and the Muse India-G.S.P. Rao Translation Prize Jury Commendation. Jayasree has also been shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's National Translation Award in Prose. She has received the 2026 New India Foundation Translation Fellowship and the 2025 Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, and was the translator-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, UK, in 2023. Currently, she is the managing editor of translated fiction at The Bombay Literary Magazine, and a mentor on the ALTA Emerging Translators Mentorship Programme. She lives in the UK.