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Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (transl. Some people at some moments) is a Tamil -language novel by Indian writer Jayakanthan. It is an expanded version of his 1968 short story Agnipravesam (transl. Entering the fire) with a different ending. The novel, serialised in 1970 in Dinamani Kathir, [1] won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972.
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (English: The Life of Prathapa Mudaliar), ,written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. [1] Penned by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826-1889), it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry. The book gave birth to a new literary genre and ...
Biography. Jegadhabi Regupathy Rengaraju was born in Paalayamkottai. He started writing detective novels in 1908. He is well known for creating the characters Tiruvellikeni Thuppariyum Govindan (lit. Govindan, the detective from Tiruvellikeni) and Savukkadi Chandrakantha (lit. Chandrakantha who whips). His novels had social reformist themes ...
Imayam. Imayam (pen name of V. Annamalai) is an Indian Tamil -language novelist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has eight novels, eight short story collections and a novella to his credit. Widely acknowledged for his realist mode of writing, his stories are known for their incisive exploration of societal intricacies.
The five Tamil epics Seevaka-chintamani, Silappatikaram, Manimekalai, Kundalakesi and Valayapathi are collectively known as The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature. There were a number of books written on Tamil grammar. Yapperungalam and Yapperungalakkarigai were two works on prosody by the Jain ascetic Amirtasagara.
Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942) [1] was a Tamil writer of detective fiction in the 1940s. He is one of the pioneer in detective story writing in Tamil language. [2] His protagonist, Digambara Samiar, was a sanyasi or holy man on a mission to fight crime. Some of his works are made into movies such as Menaka (1935 film), [3][4] Menaka ...
3. Relatives. Sean Roldan (grandson) Bhashyam Iyengar (6 November 1910 – 11 September 1987), better known by the pen name of Sandilyan, was an Indian writer known for his historical fiction novels in Tamil. He is known for his historical romance and adventure novels, often set in the times of the Chola and Pandya empires.
M. Anantanarayanan, P.M.Y. Narayanan. M. Krishnan. Website. www.madhaviah.org. Anantanarayanan Madhaviah (16 August 1872 – 22 October 1925) [1] is one of the pioneer Tamil writers, novelists and journalists. His writings were about social reformation and misogyny in society. [2] He is the author of one the early Tamil Novels named Padmavathi ...