Perumal Murugan – The International Booker Prize Longlisted Author

Perumal Murugan is one of those literary stalwarts who the readers immensely love in multiple languages. Perumal Murugan who primarily writes in the Tamil language is not just an author but also a scholar and literary chronicler. He has written twelve novels, and five short stories collections along with four anthologies of poetry, and several non-fiction collections. His popularity among the readers of English literature can be gauged by the fact that ten of his novels have been translated into the English language. His ‘Seasons of the Palm’, originally published in 2000 was awarded  Kiriyama Prize in 2005. Murugan began his writing career by publishing several short stories in the Tamil journal Manavosai between 1988 and 1991. These stories were later collected and published in a book titled Thiruchengodu (1994). His first novel, Eru Veyyil (‘Rising Heat’) was published in 1991 and dealt with the problems that a family faced when their land was acquired for the construction of a housing colony, engaging with themes of family, greed, and corruption.

Murugan has not been just contributing immensely to literature but has made several contributions to the research and academic study of Tamil literature. He has taught as a Professor of Tamil Literature at Government Arts College; Namakkal. He has also taught briefly at Presidency College, Chennai. N. Kalyan Raman won the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation for the translation of  Murugan’s masterpiece; Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat.

Pyre by Perumal Murugan which got originally published in Tamil in 2013 and subsequently translated into English in 2016 has been Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023.

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