Translator and author K.K. Gangadharan started his career at Hassan’s ‘Kothari Coffee Curing Works’. Later, he also worked in the Railway Mail Service Department of the Department of Posts. 

He has published many works including ‘Mafia’, ‘Great Stories of Malayalam’, ‘Besige Raja mattu itara Kategalu’, ‘Kamaladas: Ondu preetiya kate mattu itara kategalu’, ‘Marali Manege’, ‘Ashtamangala’, ‘Kamaladas Stories’ and ‘Damayanti’.