Malathi Maithri (born 1968) is an Indian writer, activist and feminist, who is recognised as a distinguished poet in contemporary Tamil literature.
Woman) which has translated works of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie such as Purple Red Poppy and We Should All Be Feminists.
According to The Hindu, being from a Tamil fisher family granted her some degree of independence as a woman and has been influential in her style of poetry.
[4] Her first publication, a short story titled Prayanam, was featured in the premier Tamil literature magazine Kaniayazhi in 1988.
[7] She has also been critical of the current state of feminism, which, according to her, has become controlled and marketed by corporate interests and as a result compromising in search of acceptability.