Narasimha Kumar is a technology executive with a background in Humanities. He translated an award-winning Telugu novel, ‘Konda Polam’, into English as ‘Tiger Lessons’, published by Bloomsbury, Tiger Lessons has won Book of the Year- Translation at the FICCI Publishing Awards 2026, and has been shortlisted for the Crossword Book Awards 2026. Kumar has earlier adapted Albert Camus’ ‘The Just Assassins’ for a movie. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about Telugu cinema, and on the translation of some Telugu short stories into English. Kumar lives in Hyderabad.