Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma is an author, translator, teacher, and performer.
His translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was published by Beacon Press and was recently acclaimed "without doubt the best ever into English" by David Shulman in the New York Review of Books. Other books include THE SAFETY OF EDGES (poems), GIVE, EAT, AND LIVE: Poems of Avvaiyar (translated from the Tamil), and BODY AND EARTH (with the artist C.F. John).
He speaks and performs widely, teaches for the Cozy Grammar series of online video courses, and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the U. S. Fulbright Program.