Somasuntharampillai Pathmanthan (‘Sopa’) is from Kokuvil, Sri Lanka. He is the recipient of several state and provincial awards. He has published three volumes of his own poetry and three collections of poems in translation, locally and internationally. Sopa has presented papers in many international fora including SAARC Literature Festivals (Delhi), Poets Translating Poets (Frankfurt, Mumbai and Chennai) and Amaravati Poetic Prism (Vijayawada).