Yumlembam Ibomcha is a leading Manipuri poet and short-story writer. He has published two volumes of poetry and one short-story collection. His poems appeared in Indian Literature, Marg, Chandrabhaga and poetryinternationalweb.org. He has won various awards, including the Manipuri State Kala Akademi Award for Literature (1974), the Sahitya Akademi Award (1991) for his short-story collection Nummitti Asum Thengjillakli, and the Sahtiya Akademi Translation Prize (2008) for his translation of U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara.