Carlos Tamilavan, a literary critic and novelist, introduced a new trend of vivid pictorial storytelling in Tamil literature in the 1980s. His literary repertoire includes novels, short story collections and numerous volumes of scholarly texts. His academic pursuits have spanned various areas, including comparative literature, linguistic theory, folklore and cultural studies. He has taught at renowned institutes including Warsaw University and Bangalore University. He served as the Honorary Director of Translation at the Sahitya Akademi, Bangalore, for three years. The Kannada translation of the present novel was awarded the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (2017) and the author has also received the Best Novel Award from Literary Garden, Canada (2009).
