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The English version was awarded The Tamil Literary Garden Award for Translation in 2014, [5] and longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature. [20] It was also announced as the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize awardee in 2018, but the High Court of Madras passed a stay order on it after agitators filed a plea against it.
Along with Ponniyin Selvan, this is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in Tamil. Set in the 7th-century south India against the backdrop of various historical events and figures, the novel created widespread interest in Tamil history. Honour, love and friendship are important themes that run through the course of the novel.
The novel was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017. It was also selected for the International Booker Prize longlist 2023. [3] The Tamil version is dedicated to R. Ilavarasan, a young Dalit man who was discovered dead on a railway track after his inter-caste marriage had brought about violence from his community. [4] [5]
In 2004, Nirupama Raghavan penned an abridged (English) translation. [2] In 2023, Manorama Books Published a Malayalam Translation of The Novel Translated by Sajith M.S. Plot summary
Ten of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, Current Show, One Part Woman, A Lonely Harvest, Trail by Silence, Poonachi or the Story of a Goat, Resolve, Estuary, Rising Heat, and Pyre [3] He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Salem Attur ...
Lakshmi Holmström MBE (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016 [1] [2]) was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as Mauni, Pudhumaipithan, Ashoka Mitran, Sundara Ramasami, C. S. Lakshmi, Bama, and Imayam.
Amma Vandhaal is an Indian novel by the noted Indian Tamil writer Thi. Janakiraman ("Thi Jaa"). It is a fictional account of a youngster who returns home from his vedic school. It is one of Thi Jaa's most important works, [1] and one of the few that have been translated into English, published in 1972 as The Sins of Appu's Mother. [2]
An excerpt of En Peyar Kamala was translated into English by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and published as part of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction in 2008. Volume 2 of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction featured Highway 17 , a 1980 comic written by Pushpa Thangadurai and illustrated by Jeyaraj , starring a motorcycle-riding female ...