Raghavan was born in Adyar, Chennai and spent his early years in many villages of Chengalpet District because of the frequent transfers of his father in his job. In the mid-1980s, his family shifted a…
B. Jeyamohan (also credited as Jayamohan) is one of the most influential contemporary, Tamil and Malayalam writer and literary critic from Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District in the south Indian state o…
Charu Nivedita is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Zero Degree wa…
Vannanilavan was born in Tirunelveli. His real name is U Ramachandran. He studied in Palayankottai, Tirunelveli and Sri Vaikundam and came to Chennai in 1973 in search of work. He worked for a short t…
Sundaram was born in Kallidaikurichi in Tirunelveli District and obtained his education in Delhi. He worked briefly for Indian Railways. Later he joined the National Book T…
Yuvan Chandrasekar (b. 14 December 1961) is a Tamil writer, poet, translator, whose works bring out a postmodern aesthetic. He wrote poetry under the name of M. Yuvan. Yuvan Chandrasekar's works expre…
Venkatram was born in Kumbakonam in a Sourashtra family. He obtained a B.A degree in Economics and was involved in silk Zari business. He first started publishing in the literary magazine Manikodi in …
Sa. Kandasamy (23 July 1940 – 31 July 2020) was a novelist and documentary film-maker from Mayiladuthurai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil for his novel, Vi…
இமையம் (Imayam, nom de plume of Ve. Annamalai), என்ற புனைப்பெயரில் எழுதும் வெ. அண்ணாமலை நன்கறியப்பட்ட தமிழ் எழுத்தாளர். இமையம் முதுகலைப் பட்டம் பெற்றுப் பள்ளிக்கல்வித்துறையில் ஆசிரியராகப் பணியாற்றி வர…
Cho Dharman (born 8 August 1953) is an Indian Tamil writer. He was born in Kovilpatti Taluk in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu. The real name is S. Dharmaraj. Cho Dharman's novel Koogai, a stunning a…
Neela Padmanabhan is a Tamil writer and translator. He also writes in Malayalaman. He obtained a B. Sc in Physics and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Kerala University. He worked in the Kerala…
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu…
