Kannan Sundaram

S.R. Sundaram (aka Kannan Sundaram) is the Managing Director and Publisher of Kalachuvadu Publication Pvt Ltd. He is also the editor of the publication’s eponymous magazine, a monthly journal for culture and politics. He co-organized ‘Tamil Ini 2000′, an international Tamil conference on 20th-century Tamil writing. He has been part of the International Visitor Program to the US (2002), the Frankfurt Book Fair fellowship program (2007), the Visiting International Publisher program in Sydney in 2017, and the Istanbul Fellowship in 2020. The French Book Office in India has invited him four times to Livre Paris. He has also participated in programs and seminars in Istanbul, Oslo, and Sharjah.
He has published six Tamil books consisting of critical articles on Tamil media, publishing, and politics. His English articles have been published by esteemed media outlets such as The Hindu, Economic and Political Weekly, The Indian Express, and The Scroll.
Kalachuvadu was awarded the Best Publisher Award by Publishing Next (2018) and the Romain Rolland Award for Best Translation from French to an Indian Language (2018). It also won the Federation of India Publishers’ Best Book Production Award (2019). The French government announced the Chevalier Award (Ordre National du Mérite) for Kannan in 2022.