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Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. Several of his novels, such as One Part Woman and Poonachi or the Story of a Black Goat, have been translated into English. Trial by Silence and A Lonely Harvest, translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Penguin Random House India, 2018), have been shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature in 2019.