Lakshmi Holmström is a writer and translator. She has translated short stories, novels and poetry by the major contemporary writers in Tamil. In 2000 she received the Crossword Book Award for her translation of Karukku by Bama; in 2007 she shared the Crossword-Hutch Award for her translation of Ambai’s short stories, In a Forest, a Deer; and she received the Iyal Award of the Tamil Literary Garden, Canada, in 2008. In 2003–06, she was a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. She is one of the founding trustees of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive).