Puviarasu or Puviyarasu, born. 1930), is a Tamil poet and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.
Puviarasu | |
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| Born | 1930 (age 93–94) |
Biography
editPuviyarasu was born in a village near Udumalpet. His birth name was S. Jagannathan. Puviyarasu is the Tamil translation of the Sanskritic "Jagannathan". His family moved to and settled in Coimbatore. He obtained his intermediate degree from Government Arts College, Coimbatore and his Tamil Vidwan degree from Perur Tamil College. He worked as a Tamil teacher for more than thirty years. He first started publishing in 1952. He is a Marxist by political orientation and is an opponent of Dravidian parties. He was imprisoned for his participation in agitations for making Tamil the administrative language of Tamil Nadu and the border agitations. He was one of the founders of the short-lived Vanambadi literary movement. In his literary career he has published more than 80 books. He has also translated the works of Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Osho, Dostoevsky and Rabindranath Tagore into Tamil.[1] Some of his poems have been translated into English, Russian, Hungarian, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Sinhalese. In 2007 he won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for his poem Puratchikaaran - translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam's The Revolutionary. In 2010, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his poetry collection Kaioppam (lit. The Signature). The charitable trust Puviyarasu Tamil Valarchi Mayyam (started for training Tamil teachers properly) has been named after him. He currently lives in Coimbatore.[2][3][4]
Partial bibliography
editPoetry
edit- Kaioppam
- Ettu thisai kaatru
- Kavithaikenna Kelvi
- Meendum zen kavithaikal
- Idu dhan
- Vaasippu
Translations
edit- The Book of Mirdad by Mikha'il Na'ima
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Romeo and Juliet
Drama
edit- Manidhan
- Moondram pirai
Awards and recognitions
edit- Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (2007)
- Kalaignar Porkizhi Award (2008)
- Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil (2009)
- Sahitya Puraskar Award from Kerala Cultural Centre
Books
editHis books are available as ebooks at Pustaka Archived 18 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
References
edit- ^ "Memories of Tagore in city | Coimbatore News - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi award for Puviarasu". The Hindu. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
- ^ "'Younger generation has social consciousness but no pace'". The Hindu. 11 January 2010. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010.