Vallikannan
R. S. Krishnasamy | |
---|---|
Born | Rajavallipuram S. Krishnasamy 12 November 1920 Rajavallipuram, India |
Died | 9 November 2006 | (aged 84)
Pen name | Vallikannan |
Occupation | Journalist, writer, scholar |
Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (1978) |
Signature | |
![]() |
Vallikannan, is the pseudonym of R. S. Krishnasamy (Tamil: ரா.சு. கிருஷ்ணசாமி; 12 November 1920 – 9 November 2006), a Tamil writer, journalist, critic, and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.
Biography
Krishnasamy was born in Rajavallipuram near Tirunelveli. He started writing at a very young age and had published twenty five books by the time he was 30. He worked for magazines like Cinema Ulagam, Navasakthi, Grama Oozhiyan and Hanuman. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Naiyandi Bharathi" and "Koranathan". He wrote a total of 75 books in his life - novels, novellas, poetry collections, plays and essay anthologies.
In 1978, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his critical work on modern Tamil poetry Pudukavithaiyin Thottramum Valarchiyum (lit. The birth and growth of Modern Tamil Poetry).[1] He died in 2006.[2][3][4]
Books
- Bharathidasanin uvamai nayam (1946)
- Pudhukavidhayin Thorramum Valarchiyum (1977)
- Saraswathi Kalam(1986)
- Bharathikkuppin Tamil Urai Nadai (1981)
- Thamizhil Siru Pathirikkaigal'
References
- ^ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
- ^ "Writer with many facets". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 24 November 2006. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ "Vallikannan, a rare phenomenon". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 12 November 2006. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- ^ "Vallikannan Obituary". Kalachuvadu (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2010.
- Webarchive template wayback links
- CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta)
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from August 2018
- Use Indian English from August 2018
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- Articles containing Tamil-language text
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1920 births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century Indian journalists
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil
- Tamil writers
- Poets from Tamil Nadu
- People from Tirunelveli district
- Indian Tamil people
- 20th-century Indian poets
- Journalists from Tamil Nadu