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The novel was translated into English by V. Y Kantak, and published in 1995 by Sahitya Akademi. The Tamil translation was published in 1973 under the title Vazhkkai Oar Nadagam . It was also adapted into the Gujarati film Manvini Bhavai (1993) by Upendra Trivedi , which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Gujarati . [ 8 ]
The novel won the Sahitya Akademi award for its author in 1977. [1] The novel was adapted into Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum , [ 2 ] a 1983 Tamil film, which in turn won a National Award . The novel has been translated into multiple languages including English, Hindi , Bengali , Odia , Gujarati and Malayalam .
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.
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.
Pyre (Tamil: பூக்குழி, romanized: Pūkkuḻi, lit. 'flower pot') is a novel by Perumal Murugan that describes a love story within social caste-induced hatred. [1] It was originally published in Tamil in 2013 and subsequently translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan in 2016. [2]
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 Tamil translation of Pavannan and the Telugu translation of Gangisetty Lakshminarayana won the Sahitya Akademi's translation award in 2004. [5] Among foreign languages, the first translation appeared in English under the title Parva: A Tale of War, Peace, Love, Death, God and Man. It was the work of K. Raghavendra Rao.
Venmurasu (Tamil: வெண்முரசு Veṇmuracu; transl. Sacred Proclamation) is a Tamil language novel by author Bahuleyan Jeyamohan. It is a modern re-narration of the Indian classical epic, the Mahābhārata. Consisting of 26 volumes spanning 22,400 pages, Venmurasu is considered one of the longest novels ever published. [2]