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| death_place = [[Norwich]], England
| occupation = Author, translator in English
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| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]]<br>[[University of Madras]]
| period = 1973–2016
| genre = Tamil – English translation
| subject = Women, classical and contemporary literature
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| notableworks = ''Sangati (trans.)''<br />''Karukku (trans.)''<br />In a Forest, A Deer
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'''Lakshmi Holmström''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016<ref name=Guardian>Amanda Hopkinson, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/18/lakshmi-holmstrom-obituary "Lakshmi Holmström obituary"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 18 May 2016.</ref><ref name=MM>{{cite web|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Our-lady-of-Tamil-literature/articleshow/52169703.cms|title=Our lady of Tamil literature|work=Mumbai Mirror|accessdate=8 May 2016}}</ref>) was an Indian-British writer, [[literary critic]], and translator of [[Tamil Language|Tamil]] fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as [[Mowni|Mauni]], [[Pudhumaipithan]], [[Ashoka Mitran]], [[Sundara Ramasami]], [[C. S. Lakshmi]], [[Bama (writer)|Bama]], and [[Imayam]]. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English literature from the [[University of Madras]] and her postgraduate degree from [[University of Oxford]]. Her postgraduate work was on the work of [[R. K. Narayan]]. She was the founder-trustee of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive) – an organisation archiving the work of British writers and artists of South Asian origin. She lived in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Number of Great Indian Writers Are Not Known in the Rest of the World|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211410|work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook Magazine]]|author=Manoj Nair| date =23 April 2001| accessdate =5 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="rlf">{{cite news
|url = http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=30&menu=2
|title = Current Fellows – Lakshmi Holmström
|work = The Royal Literary Fund
|accessdate = 5 January 2010
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}}</ref><ref name="oup1">{{cite news
|url = http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/WorldLiterature/Asia/?view=usa&ci=9780195698435
|title = Sangati Events
|work = [[Oxford University Press]]
|accessdate = 5 January 2010
|url-status = dead
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}}</ref><ref name="cwd">{{cite news
|url = http://www.crosswordbookstores.com/Html/cwba-winners%202004.htm
|title = The Hutch Crossword Book Award 2006 for Indian Language Fiction Translation
|work = [[Crossword Bookstores]]
|accessdate = 5 January 2010
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100131204559/http://www.crosswordbookstores.com/Html/cwba-winners%202004.htm
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=On Back Stage|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?250309|work=Outlook Magazine|author=Malashri Lal|author-link=Malashri Lal| date =29 June 2009| accessdate =5 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="toi">{{cite news
| url =http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-poems-find-an-English-audience/articleshow/4920825.cms
| title = Tamil poems find an English audience
| work = [[The Times of India]]
| publisher = [[The Times Group]]
| date =22 August 2009
| accessdate =5 January 2010
}}</ref>

She was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in 2011 for services to literature.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |date=31 December 2010 |page=17 |supp=y }}</ref>

She died of cancer on 6 May 2016.<ref name=Guardian />

==Bibliography==
* ''Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R. K. Narayan'', Calcutta: Writers Workshop (1973)
* (ed.) ''The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women'', London:[[Virago Press]] (1990)
* (trans.) [[C. S. Lakshmi|Ambai]]'s ''A Purple Sea'', Affiliated East-West Press (1992)
* (ed.) ''Writing from India: Figures in a Landscape'', [[Cambridge University Press]] (1994)
* (trans.) [[Silappatikaram|Silappadikaram]]: [[Manimekalai]], [[Orient Longman|Orient Blackswan]] (1996)
* (trans.) Ashoka Mitran's ''My father's Friend'', [[Sahitya Akademi]] (2002)
* (trans.) [[Bama (writer)|Bama]]'s ''Karukku'', [[Oxford University Press]] (2000)
* (trans.) [[Imayam]]'s ''Beasts of Burden'', Manas (2001)
* (ed.) ''Waves: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry Translated from Tamil'', Manas (2001)
* (trans.) ''Pudumaipithan: Fictions'', Chennai: Katha (2003)
* (trans.) [[Sundara Ramaswamy]]'s ''That's It But'', Chennai:Katha (2003)
* ''Mauni: A Writers' Writer'', Chennai:Katha (2004)
* (trans.) Na Muthuswamy's ''Neermai'' (Waterness), Chennai:Katha (2004)
* (trans.) Bama's ''Sangati'', Oxford University Press (2005)
* (trans.) Madhavayya's ''Clarinda, a Historical Novel'', Sahitya Akademi (2005)
* (trans.) ''In A Forest, A Deer: Stories'' by Ambai, Chennai:Katha (2006)
* (trans.)Salma's ''The Hour Past Midnight'', [[Zubaan]] (2009)
* (ed.)(trans.) ''The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry: The rapids of a great river'', [[Penguin Books]] (2009)
* (trans.) [[Cheran Rudramoorthy]]'s ''A Second Sunrise'', [[Navayana]] (2012)

==Awards and Scholarships==
*2000 [[Crossword Book Award]] in the Indian language fiction translation category for ''Karukku'' by [[Bama (Tamil writer)|Bama]]
*2003–2006 Fellow, [[Royal Literary Fund|The Royal Literary Fund]] at [[University of East Anglia]]
*2006 [[Crossword Book Award]] in the Indian language fiction translation category for ''In a Forest, A Deer'' by [[C. S. Lakshmi]]
*2007 ''Iyal Virudhu'' Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Canada-based Tamil Literary Garden
*2015 [[Crossword Book Award]] in the Indian language fiction translation category for ''Children, Women, Men'' by Sundara Ramaswamy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kitaab.org/2015/04/29/india-raymond-crossword-book-award-2014-winners-announced/ |title=India: Raymond Crossword Book Award 2014 winners announced |publisher=kitaab.org |author=Zafar Anjum |date=29 April 2015 |accessdate=29 April 2015}}</ref>
*2016 The A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for translation from a South Asian language, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for ''Children, Women and Men'', originally published as ''Kuzhandaigal, Pengal, Aangal'' by Sundara Ramaswamy, Penguin Books India

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