Syam Sudhakar

Syam Sudhakar (born 16 October 1983) ) is a bilingual poet and academic from Kerala, India. He writes poems in Malayalam, his native language, and in English. His poems have been translated into several languages including Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Manipuri, French and Chinese. His debut collection in Malayalam Earpam (Damp, 2001) and the English collection Drenched by the Sun (2013) are the most prominent works of his poetic career. He has also published a number of poems and articles in leading magazines and journals both home and abroad. Syam Sudhakar was born in 1983 in Vadanamkurissi, a village in Palakkad District, Kerala. After his early education at K.V.R.H.S and G.H.S.S Vadanamkurissi, he completed his graduation in English and History from St. Thomas College, Thrissur. He pursued his Masters in English Literature from the University of Madras, M. Phil with a specialization on Dravidian Aesthetics from Presidency College, Chennai and Ph.D in Beat Generation Literature from the University of Madras. He is also one of the founder members of Centre for Performance Research and Cultural Studies in South Asia and the Poetry Advisor of Sydney School of Arts and Humanities. Sudhakar was associated with a research project on Gender Studies in IIT Madras and worked at Christ College, Irinjalakuda and VIT, Chennai before he began his teaching career at St. Thomas College, Thrissur.