K. D. Thirunavukkarasu is a Tamil

Tamil language

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 scholar, writer, critic and translator from Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

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Biography

Thirunavukkarasu is an alumnus of Pachaiyappa's College

Pachaiyappa's College

Pachaiyappa's College is one of the oldest educational institutions in Chennai, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The college was established as Pachaiyappa's Central Institution at Popham's Broadway on January 1, 1842, from money given in Pachaiyappa Mudaliar's will. It was the first Hindu...

, Chennai

Chennai

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. He obtained a M.A, M. Litt and a PhD and worked as a professor at the International Institute of Tamil Studies in Chennai. In 1974, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

 for Tamil for his literary criticism Thirukkural Needhi Illakkiyam (lit. Thirukkural, a moralist literature).

Partial bibliography

• Chieftains of the Sangam age
• A Critical study of Dr. Mu. Va's works
• Thirukkural needhi illakkiyam
• Thirukkural karpanai thiranum nataka nalanum
• Arunmozhi aayvuth thogudhi
• Then kizhakku aasiya nadugalil thamilar panpadu
• (trans.)Rajaram mohan roy (biography)
• (trans.)Jeevanandha Das (biography)