R. Parthasarathy

Rajagopal.Parthasarathy (born 1934) is an Indian poet, translator, critic, and editor.

Rajagopal Parthasarathy was born on 20 August 1934 in Tirupparaiturai near Tiruchchirappalli.

He was educated at Don Bosco High School and Siddharth College, Fort, Mumbai and at Leeds University, UK, where he was British Council Scholar in 1963–64.

He was also awarded the Ulka Poetry Prize of Poetry India in 1966.

His works include Poetry from Leeds in 1968, Rough Passage published by Oxford University Press in 1977, a long poem ( Preface "a book where all poems form part of a single poem, as it were" – R. Parthasarathy ) and Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets, edited by him and published by Oxford University Press in 1976.

He also translates from Tamil to English.

Parthasarathy was lecturer in English Literature in Mumbai for ten years before joining Oxford University Press in 1971 as Regional Editor in Chennai.

He moved to New Delhi in 1978.

He is Associate Professor of English and Asian Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.

He was a member of the University of Iowa Writing Program during 1978–79, and member of the advisory board for English of the Sahitya Akademi – the National Academy of Letters, New Delhi, India.

He earned a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.

His translation into modern English verse of the fifth-century Tamil epic, The Tale of the Anklet: An Epic of South India was published by Columbia UP in 1993.

It received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 1995 and The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation in 1996.