PP Raveendran, bilingual critic and currently the Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Calicut, was formerly Professor and Director, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. He is the author of, among others, 'Texts Histories Geographies: Reading Indian Literature' (Orient BlackSwan, 2009), 'Kamala Das' (Sahitya Akademi, 2017), and the coedited volume, 'The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Malayalam Literature' (Oxford University Press, 2017). His work in Malayalam titled 'Adhunikatayude Pinnampuram' (The Backyard of Modernity, 2017) won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism for the year 2018.