The Tamil Literary Garden, is a Canadian literary organization and charity founded in 2001. The focus of this organization is on supporting translations of Tamil literature, sponsoring lecture series, commissioning publications, launching books and recognizing annually significant achievements in Tamil in a number of genres and fields. The Tamil Literary Garden has decided to honour Sayanthan Kathir, an author from Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with fiction award this year. Renuka talks to Sayanthan about the award and his literary work.