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'''A. J. Thomas''' (born 10 June 1952) is an [[India]]n poet writing in [[English language|English]]. He is an acclaimed translator of poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction prose from his mother tongue [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]. He is best known as the editor of ''[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]'', the bimonthly English journal of [[Sahitya Akademi]] (India's National Academy of Letters) which he edited till 2010.<ref>http://www.littlemag.com/about/about.html</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/group/564091 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603065813/http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/en/group/564091 |archive-date=2011-06-03 }}</ref> <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
A. J. Thomas was born in Mount Illickan valley of [[Western Ghats]], [[Kerala]]. His early childhood was spent in Mechal hamlet of [[Kottayam]]. In 1976 he took up employment with [[Kerala Tourism Development Corporation]]. Subsequently he came in contact with internationally renowned writers like [[Dominique Lapierre]], [[Angus Wilson|Sir Angus Wilson]], [[Salman Rushdie]], and Indian writers like [[Pritish Nandy]], [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] who inspired him. <br />
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== Literary works ==<br />
Thomas's first book of note was ''Bhaskara Pattelar and Other Stories,'' a translation of [[Paul Zacharia]]'s stories. This was a recreation of the original with Gita Krishnankutty and Zacharia as contributors. <br />
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Thomas's literary works have appeared in poetry anthologies like ''[[The Dance of the Peacock]]: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'',<ref name="brook">{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Richard|title=The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|access-date=5 January 2015|issue=current|publisher=Hidden Brook Press, Canada}}</ref> featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,<ref name="press">{{cite web|last1=Press|first1=Hidden Brook|title=Hidden Brook Press|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com|publisher=Hidden Brook Press|access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref> [[Canada]].<br />
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== Awards and recognition ==<br />
Thomas has received more recognition for literary translation. He won Katha award for his translation of Paul Zacharia's story "Salam America". The verse-fiction ''Ujjaini'', based on the life of Kalidasa by O. N. V. Kurup, the doyen of Malayalam poetry, in Thomas's translation, won critical acclaim. For translating the novel ''Keshavan’s Lamentions,'' by veteran Malayalam novelist M. Mukundan, he won the [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]] 2007. According to [[Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan]], the Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Awards of [[Sahitya Akademi]] were the original brain child of A. J. Thomas.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pradhan|first1=Tapan Kumar|title=Kalahandi - The Untold Story|date=12 July 2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtTLzQEACAAJ|publisher=Kohinoor Books|isbn=9788194579717|access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref> Thomas was the chief editor of [[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]] till 25 August 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=A J Thomas - Biography|url=https://thomasaj.in/ |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref><br />
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