Divya Kalavala is an academic and literary translator. She was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellowship for the year 2023–24 at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK. In the subsequent year, she was awarded the UEA Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowship (2024–25) at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts for her project, ‘Mithila Art from India’. 
She holds a doctoral degree in Film Studies from The English and Foreign Languages University and has been teaching at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru. Divya translates from her mother tongue, Telugu, into English and is primarily interested in translating literary texts from the margins as a form of political solidarity.