K. SATCHIDANANDAN (India) is perhaps the most translated of contemporary Indian poets, having thirty-one collections of translation in nineteen languages including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Irish and Italian besides all the major Indian languages like Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi. He was a professor of English in Kerala and later became the Secretary (Chief Executive) of the Sahitya Akademi (Indian National Academy of Literature), the Director of the School of Translation Studies, Indira Gandhi Open University, a National Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Satchidanandan has won forty-seven literary awards from different countries around the world.
K. 薩奇達南丹（印度），是當代印度獲翻譯得最多的詩人，發表過三十一本翻譯詩集，共十九種語言，包括阿拉伯語、漢語、英語、法語、德語、愛爾蘭語及意大利語，以及印度的主要語言如坦米爾語、孟加拉文和印度語。他曾為英語教授，歷任印度國家文學院院長、英迪拉甘地公開大學翻譯學院總監、印度高級研究所國家研究員，亦是喀拉拉邦文學院成員，曾多次代表印度參加國際文學節及書展，並於不同國家贏得四十七項文學獎。