Andy Sundaresan is a professional engineer living in the United States for more than 45 years. After his retirement in 1994, he has been translating Tamil short stories and novels into English and Telugu for publication in the US. Last year he translated all his late sister Vindhiya's Tamil works into Telugu and donated three volumes to the Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In 2013, the Sahitya Akademi published Sundaresan's Autumn Reveries, the English translation of Neela Padmanabhan's Ilai Uthir Kaalam. In 2016, Autumn Reveries won the Nalli Thisai Ettum Award as the best translated English work.