Senthuran Varatharajah was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1984. He studied philosophy, Protestant theology and comparative religious and cultural studies in Marburg, Berlin and London. His works have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Kranichstein Literature Prize in 2016, the Rauris Literature Prize and the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize the following year. Varatharajah will read from his latest work. The selected texts will also be translated into Tamil on behalf of the eLk. The writer lives in Berlin.
He will be reading from his works in person at the eLk.
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