Ponneelan
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Ponneelan is a district of Tamil Nadu state, India and is the southernmost land area of mainland India.The district is the second most urbanised district in Tamilnadu, next only to Chennai and ahead of Coimbatore. It also has the highest literacy and education levels in the...
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Pen name
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of Kandeswara Bhaktavatsalan, a Tamil
Tamil language
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writer from Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
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, India
India
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. He is a Marxist and was influenced by Tamil Communist leader P. Jeevanandham in his younger days. He became a teacher and eventually retired as the deputy director of school education for Tamil Nadu. He won the 1994 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 his novel Pudhiya Dharisanangal. He is currently the state president of the Tamil literary organisation Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumandram. During 2005-2008, he was a member of the Central Board of Film Certification
Central Board of Film Certification
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(censor board). He also wrote the script for the 2008 film Ayyavazhi
Ayyavazhi (film)
Ayyavazhi is a Tamil language film directed by P.C.N. Anbazhagan; it was released on 28 June 2008....
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Fiction
Novels- Karisal (1978)
- Pudhiya Dharisanangal (1992)
- Kollaikarargal
Short story anthologies
- Atthaani Makkal
- Pottal Kadhaigal
- Thedal
- Oorril malarndadhu
- Pudhiya mottugal
- Idam maari vantha vaergal
- Pullin kuzhanthaigal
- Uravugal
- Anbulla
- Nithyamanadhu
- Thirumanangal sorgathil nichayikka padukindrana
Non fiction
Biographies- Jeeva enra manudan
- Thamilagathin aanmeega vazhikaatti
- Ragunathanin ilakkiya thadam
- Therkilirundhu
- Vaikunthar kaattum vaazhkai neri
Essay anthologies
- Puvi engum santhi nilavuga
- Tharkala thamil ilakkiyamum dravida sidhathangalum
- Murpokku ilakkiya iyakkangal
- Sudhanthira thamilagathil kalai ilakkiya iyakkangal
- Sathi madhangalai paraom
- Thaimozhi kalvi
- Tamil nadu kalai ilakkiya perumandra varalaaru