Daniel Selvaraj | |
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| Born | 14 January 1938 Thenkalam, Thirunelveli district, Tamilnadu |
| Died | 20 December 2019 (aged 81) |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, writer |
| Spouse | Bharathaputhri |
| Children | Siddharthan, Sevagan, Veda Gnanalakshmi |
D. Selvaraj (Tamil: டி. செல்வராஜ்; 14 January 1938 – 20 December 2019) was an Indian writer who wrote novels, short stories, and plays in the Tamil language. A lawyer by profession, he was involved in various Communist and left-leaning writers' organisations such as the Democratic Writers Association of India and the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Association (TNPWA), of which he was an executive committee member. He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best novel of 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled Thol. He did the field work for Thol for a decade before writing it. The novel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil in 2012.[1][2]
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi award announcement" (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "Satchidanandan, Thayil among 24 Sahitya Akademi awardees". The New Indian Express. IANS. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2020.