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| Born | October 15, 1966[1] India |
| Occupation | Author |
| Subject | Tamil |
| Notable works | Madhorubagan (novel) Saathiyum Naanum (essays) " Pyre" ( novel) |
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Perumal Murugan (born 1966[2]) is an Indian writer, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written twelve novels, six collections of short stories, six anthologies of poetry and many of the non-fiction books. Ten of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, Current Show, One Part Woman, A Lonely Harvest, Trail by Silence, Poonachi or the Story of a Goat, Resolve, Estuary, Rising Heat, and Pyre [3] He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Salem Attur and Namakkal.[4]
- ^ Kuruvilla, Elizabeth (4 November 2017). "The return of Perumal Murugan". mint. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ Raman, N. Kalyan (1 December 2013). "Boats Against The Current: The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan". Caravan Magazine. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Perumal Murugan". Penguin Books of India.
- ^ Rajendran, S. P. (10 July 2016). "Tamilnadu: Writers Condemn Burning of Tamil Novel by Hindutva Outfits". Peoples Democracy. Vol. 40, no. 28.