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Imayam | |
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| Born | V. Annamalai 10 March 1964 Kazhudur, South Arcot District, Madras State (now Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu), India |
| Pen name | Imayam |
| Language | Tamil |
| Period | 1990–present |
| Spouse |
Pushpavalli (m. 1997) |
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Imayam (pen name of V. Annamalai) is an Indian Tamil-language novelist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has eight novels, eight short story collections and a novella to his credit. Widely acknowledged for his realist mode of writing, his stories are known for their incisive exploration of societal intricacies. Closely associated with the Dravidian Movement and its politics, he is considered as one of the leading writers from South India. He is the recipient of the honorary Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Selladha Panam in 2020. He is also the first Tamil writer to receive the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar National Award (2022) for bringing new sensibilites to Tamil literature through his writings. Noting the writer's proclivity to Dravidian ideals, the Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K.Stalin called him "an ideologue donned in black and red". He lauded Imayam calling him a "proactive writer" in the Dravidian movement.[1]
Agni Aksra Award, the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Association Award, the N.L.C. Award, and the Thamizh Thendral Thiru.V.Ka. Award from the state government of Tamil Nadu are bestowed upon him for his literary contributions that captures the realities around him, about Dalits, caste, patriarchy, women, injustice and oppression.[2] He has been honored by the governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and India for his literary legacy that spans around almost three decades.[3]
- ^ "Stalin congratulates writer Imayam on winning Kuvempu National Award". DT Next. 25 November 2022.
- ^ "'Writing is a political act'".
- ^ "Imayam". Words Without Borders.