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A. Dakshinamurthy; A. Muttulingam; Aravindan Neelakandan; Brammarajan; Ambai; Charu Nivedita; Cho Dharman; Dhamayanthi; Devan; Era Natarasan; Imayam; Indira Parthasarathy
One of the best known Tamil works of this period is the Ramavatharam by Kamban who flourished during the reign of Kulottunga III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although the author states that he followed Valmiki, his work is not a mere translation or even an adaptation of the Sanskrit epic. Kamban imports into his ...
Pages in category "Tamil-language writers" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
South India in Sangam Period. In Old Tamil language, the term Tamilakam (Tamiḻakam, Purananuru 168. 18) referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, [web 1] corresponding roughly to the area known as southern India today, consisting of the territories of the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
He is also the first Tamil writer to receive the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar National Award (2022) for bringing new sensibilites to Tamil literature through his writings. Noting the writer's proclivity to Dravidian ideals, the Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K.Stalin called him "an ideologue donned in black and red". He lauded Imayam calling him a ...
Indian Tamil writers of Sri Lanka (2 P) R. Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil (67 P) S. Sri Lankan Tamil writers (1 C, 61 P) Pages in category "Tamil ...
Pages in category "Tamil-language literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 226 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, aims at "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi. [1]