R. Dhandayudham was a Tamil

Tamil language

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 scholar, writer, critic and translator from Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

India

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Biography

Dhandyudham worked as a lecturer in the Indology department of University of Malaya

University of Malaya

The University of Malaya is located on a campus near the centre of Kuala Lumpur, and is the oldest university in Malaysia. It was founded in 1905 as a public-funded tertiary institution...

, Malaysia. He has published a number of critical and research works on Tamil literature

Tamil literature

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 and a few works of fiction as well. His critical works are in the curriculum of Tamil Virtual University and Bharathidasan University

Bharathidasan University

Bharathidasan University is a university in the city of Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu state, India. It has affiliated colleges in districts of the state, including Nagapattinam, Perambalur, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Tiruchirapalli. It is a recognised university, supported by the...

. In 1975, 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 Tharkaala Tamil Illakkiyam (lit. Modern Tamil literature). A literary organisation (Doctor Dhandayudham Ilakkiya Peravai) has been established in his memory in Malaysia.

Non-fiction

• Tharkaala Tamil Illakkiyam
• Malaysia Tamil ilakkiya varalaaru
• A study of the sociological novels in Tamil
• Aalaya vazhipattil Tamil
• A survey of modern Tamil literature,

Further reading

• Ninratupōl ninranaiyē neṭuntūram cenranaiyē (Dhandayudham commemoration volume) by V. Selvaraj