Samuthiram was born in Tippanampatti village in Tirunelveli District. He worked in All India Radio and Doordarshan. He was a prolific writer who wrote fourteen novels, four novellas, two essay anthologies, one play and more than 300 short stories (published as twenty-two collections). Many of his works have been translated into other Indian languages, such as Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam. His political orientation was socialist, and he was involved in many literary feuds with fellow writers, such as Asokamitran and Vannanilavan. His works reflect his socialist beliefs, and most of them are about the oppression of the downtrodden. In 1990, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his novel Veril Pazhutha Pala. Other awards receSamuthiram was born in Tippanampatti village in Tirunelveli District. He worked in All India Radio and Doordarshan. He was a prolific writer who wrote fourteen novels, four novellas, two essay anthologies, one play and more than 300 short stories (published as twenty-two collections). Many of his works have been translated into other Indian languages, such as Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam. His political orientation was socialist, and he was involved in many literary feuds with fellow writers, such as Asokamitran and Vannanilavan. His works reflect his socialist beliefs, and most of them are about the oppression of the downtrodden. In 1990, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his novel Veril Pazhutha Pala. Other awards received include the Tamil Annai Award from Tamil University, Thanjavur; the Ilakkiyachinthanai Short Story Prize; and the Kalaignar Award from Murasoli Trust (posthumous). He died in 2003 in a road accident in Chennai....more
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