Ashokamitran's Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (Chennai at a glance), which is now available in English is a masterly survey of the city by the master himself. In classic Ashokamitran style, the book proceeds district by district, looking at each with affection, sympathy and loads of wit. Chennai emerges in all its colours from this book. Having been a long-term resident of the city of Madras that is Chennai, Ashokamitran made it a central feature of several of his stories. But this book is different in that it is the story of the various areas that make up the city itself. There are ways and…mehr
Ashokamitran's Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (Chennai at a glance), which is now available in English is a masterly survey of the city by the master himself. In classic Ashokamitran style, the book proceeds district by district, looking at each with affection, sympathy and loads of wit. Chennai emerges in all its colours from this book. Having been a long-term resident of the city of Madras that is Chennai, Ashokamitran made it a central feature of several of his stories. But this book is different in that it is the story of the various areas that make up the city itself. There are ways and ways of writing a book on a metropolis ranging from the completely factual to a wholly fictional. It required Ashokamitran to present Chennai factually but in the engaging manner of a novel. The city, which has been lucky in having chroniclers from the 1870s to the present, could not have asked for anything better. V. SRIRAM, Chennai chronicler
ASHOKAMITRAN (1931-2017) was born in Secunderabad (Telangana) and moved to Chennai at the age of twenty. One of the most prominent figures of the contemporary Tamil creative writing, he wrote more than two hundred and fifty short stories, and a dozen novellas and novels. His writing is known for subtlety of expression and understatement. His novels and short stories are marked by satire and engrossing portrayal of people who thrive in life despite hardships.Ashokamitran received several honours and awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his short story collection Appavin Snehithar ('Friend of Father'). He won the Ilakkiya Chinthanai award twice (1977 and 1984). He was an official invitee to the Frankfurt Book Fair 1986 and the Munich Book Fair 2002 to represent Tamil literature. In 1990, he was conferred the Senior Fellowship to Outstanding Persons in the Fields of Culture by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. In 1999, he was awarded the K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowship in Comparative Indian Literature for study on the origin and development of Indian novel in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali. Other awards include MGR award in 2007, NTR award in 2012 and award of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad, Kolkata in 2013, and Thiru Vi.Ka. award of the Tamil Nadu Government in 2014 (in addition to three other awards of the Tamil Nadu Government).
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