Tamil Prose after Bharathi - Vallikannan
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This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution to the development of Tamil as a language reflecting modernity and capable of coping with the knowledge explosion witnessed up to the present day.

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This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution to the development of Tamil as a language reflecting modernity and capable of coping with the knowledge explosion witnessed up to the present day.
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Vallikannan (given name R.S. Krishnasamy, 1920-2006) was born in Rajavallipuram, a village in the karisal region of Thoothukudi district. He started his career as a government employee but soon gave it up for literary writing. His prolific literary output includes innumerable journal articles, writings for children, essays, poetry, short stories, novellas and novels. Among the awards won by him the Sahitya Akademi Award (1978) for his critical work Puthukavithaiyin Thotramum Valarchiyum (The Origin and Growth of Modern Tamil Poetry) and the Tamil Development Council Award for his short stories (2002) stand out. His other noteworthy publications are Bharathidasan Uvamai Nayam (1946), Saraswathi Kaalam (1986) and Thamizhil Siru Pathrikaigal (1991). Tamil Prose after Bharathi reveals his insightful reading and provide the readers with a comprehensive view of the writer's style and philosophy. S Thillainayagam is retired professor of English, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. His papers presented in International and National Conferences have been published as Feminist Literary Essays. He has edited Sundara Ramasamiyin Thernthedutha Katturaigal (Selected Essays of Sundara Ramasamy) for the Sahitya Akademi and a handbook The Status of Women in India for M.S. University. His translation Pichamurty's Selected Short Stories (Sahitya Akademi) won him the Nalli-Thisai Ettum Award for the best Tamil-to-English translation of the year 2019. He has also authored a book containing simple, precise meaning for the Thirukural couplets in Tamil and English. His other translations from Tamil to English are A.K. Chettiar's In the Tracks of the Mahatma, Kalaignar Karunanithi's Ponnar-Sankar, A. K. Perumal's A History of South Kumari and A. Muttulingam's Password and other Stories.