S.
Siraj Ahmed, is a bilingual
critic and translator who writes in Kannada and English. He is well known as a
literary critic in Kannada literature who has published several essays on
Kannada literature, culture and politics. He is a Professor of English at the
Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in English, Sahyadri Arts
College, Kuvempu University, Karnataka. He worked for his PhD on Salman Rushdie
and Rohinton Mistry. He has edited a series of translations from Marathi,
Gujarati, Telugu and Konkani for Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Pradhikara, Govt. of
Karnataka, besides working as one of the Editors for a project to translate
Saint Kanakadasa’s works into all Indian Languages. He has published a reader
on Damodar Mavjo’s select writings in Kannada and a book on Multilingualism and
Translation both in English and Kannada. He is currently working as an Editor
of Bahuvachana, a Bi monthly Journal in Kannada, which is exclusively devoted
for criticism. It publishes critical essays on recent publications in Kannada.