Author of four bestselling Malayalam novels, Alpha, Francis Itty Cora, Sugandhi Enna Andal Devanayaki, and Mama Africa, T.D. Ramakrishnan is also a translator and screenwriter. He is the recipient of many awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and the prestigious Vayalar Award. He has written the script and dialogues of Olu, the opening movie of Indian Panorama in IFFI Goa 2018. The English translation of Sugandhi Enna Andal Devanayaki titled Sugandhi Alias Andal Deavanayaki was longlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Prize 2019. He introduced several Tamil literary works to Keralites and has won the E.K. Divakaran Potti Award for Best Translator in 2007.