Mu. Varadarajan also known as Mu. Va. and Varatharasanar, was a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 scholar, author and academic from Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

India

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. He was a prolific writer whose published works include 13 novels, 6 plays, 2 short story collections, 11 essay anthologies, a book on the history of Tamil literature

Tamil literature

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, books on Tamil linguistics and children's books. During 1961-71, he was the head of the Tamil department at the University of Madras

University of Madras

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. In 1961, 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 novel Agal Vilakku. During 1971-74, he was the vice-chancellor of the University of Madurai

Madurai Kamaraj University

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Fiction

Novels

1. Kallo KaviyamoItalic text
2. Nenjil oru Mul
3. Akal vilakku
4. Karithundu
5. Perra manam
6. Senthamarai
7. Paavai
8. Andha Naal
9. Malar Vizhi
10. Alli
11. Kayamai
12. Mann kudisai
13. Vada malar

Short stories

1. Ki. pi. 2000
2. Pazhiyum Pavamum
3. Viduthalaya
4. Kurattai oli

Plays

1. Pachayappar
2. Manachandru
3. Ilango
4. Doctor ali
5. Moondru nadagangal
6. Kadhal enge?

Non fiction

Essays

1. Aramum Arasiyalum
2. Arasiyal alaigal
3. Kuruvi por
4. Penmai Vazhga
5. Kuzhandhai
6. Kalvi
7. Mozhi parru
8. Nattu parru
9. Ulaga peredu
10. Mannin madhippu
11. Nalvazhvu

Literary history

1. History of Tamil literature
2. Tamil nenjam
3. Manal veedu
4. Thiruvalluval or Vazhkai vilakkam
5. Thirukkural Thelivurai
6. Ovacheydhi
7. Kannagi
8. Madhavi
9. Mullai thinai
10. Nedunthogai virundhu
11. Kurunthogai virundhu
12. Narrinai virundhu
13. Ilakkiya araychi
14. Narrinai selvam
15. Kurunthogai selvam
16. Nadaivandi
17. Konguther vazhkai
18. Pulavar kanneer
19. Ilakkiya thiran
20. Ilakkiya Marabu
21. Ilango adigal
22. Ilakkiya Katchikal
23. Kural kattum kadhalar
24. Sanga ilakkiyathil iyarkai

Children's literature

1. Kuzhandhai pattukal
2. Ilaingarkku erra iniya pattugal
3. Padiyathar padum paadu
4. Kannudaya vazhvu

Letter anthologies

1. Annaikku
2. Thambikku
3. Thangaikku
4. Nanbarukku

Travelogues

1. yan kanda ilankai

Linguistics

1. Mozhi nool
2. Mozhiyin kathai
3. Ezhuthin kathai
4. Sollin kathai
5. Mozhi varalaaru
6. Mozhi iyar katturaigal

Biography

1. Aringar Bernard Shah
2. Gandhi annal
3. Kavingar Tagore
4. Thiru. Vi. Ka.

English books

1. The Treatment of Nature in Sangam Literature
2. Ilango Adigal