Neela Padmanabhan
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Neela Padmanabhan | |
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Born | (1938-04-26) 26 April 1938 (age 86) Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Writer |
Known for | Sahitya Akademi award winner |
Neela Padmanabhan (Tamil: நீல பத்பநாபன்; born 26 April 1938), is a Tamil writer from Nagercoil, India. He also writes in Malayalam.
Biography
Neela Padmanabhan was born in Kanyakumari District. He obtained a B. Sc in Physics and a degree in Electrical Engineering from Kerala University. He worked in the Kerala State Electricity Board till his retirement in 1993. His first noted work was the novel Thalaimuraigal (lit. Generations). He has written 20 novels, 10 short story collections, 4 volumes of poetry and 7 essay collections in Tamil. In Malayalam, he has published a novel, four short story collections and a single essay collection. Besides Tamil and Malayalam, he also has a few English works to his credit. During 1985-89 he was the Tamil editor at Sahitya Akademi and was the convener of the Akademi's Tamil advisory board during 1998-2002. In 2007, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his novel Ilai uthir kaalam (lit. Autumn). He had earlier won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2003 for his translation of Ayyappa Paniker's works into Tamil. In 2010, his novel Thalaimuraigal was made into a Tamil film titled Magizhchi (lit. Happiness). His most noted work is his novel Pallikondapuram.(lit. Where the Lord sleeps). He currently lives in Thiruvananthapuram.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Partial bibliography
Novels
- Thalaimuraikal (1968)
- Pallikondapuram (1970)
- Filekal (1973)
- Uravugal (1975)
- Min ulagam (1976)
- Yaathirai (1977)
- Anubavangal (1977)
- Samar (1977)
- Nerru Vanthavan (1978)
- Udaya Tharagai (1980)
- Vattathin veliyae (1980)
- Bhagavathi kovil theru (1981)
- Bothayil karaithavaigal (1985)
- Thee (1985)
- Murivugal (1985)
- Therodum veedhi (1987)
- Thee Thee (1990) (Malayalam)
- Dhavam seidhavargal (1991)
- Vellam (1994)
- Koondil pakshigal (1995)
- Ilai uthir kaalam (2005)
Short story collections
- Moham muppathaandu (1969)
- Sandayum Sambandhamum (1972)
- Moondravathu naal (1974)
- Irandavathu mugam (1978)
- Naagammava (1978)
- Siragadikal (1978)
- Kathakal irupathu (1980) (Malayalam)
- Sathityanin sannithiyil (1985)
- Erumbukal (1987) (Malayalam)
- Vaana veethiyil (1988)
- Arkande Koanil (1997) (Malayalam)
- Avaravar antharangam (1998)
- Verathavar(2003) (Malayalam)
References
- ^ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
- ^ "NEELA PADMANABHAN, A WRITER NON-PAREIL". Neela Padmanabhan. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ Indira Parthasarathy (8 December 2009). "Creative writing as a social act". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ "Gauthaman to debut in Magizchi". IndiaGlitz. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ "Soul of Thiruvananthapuram". The Hindu. 2 March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ "Creative modern writer". The Hindu. 26 March 2002. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
External links
- Official website Archived 14 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- v
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- R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955)
- Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956)
- C. Rajagopalachari (1958)
- Mu. Varadarajan (1961)
- Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962)
- Akilan (1963)
- P. Sri Acharya (1965)
- M. P. Sivagnanam (1966)
- K. V. Jagannathan (1967)
- A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968)
- Bharatidasan (1969)
- Ku. Alagirisami (1970)
- Na. Parthasarathy (1971)
- D. Jayakanthan (1972)
- Rajam Krishnan (1973)
- K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974)
- R. Dhandayudham (1975)
- Indira Parthasarathy (1977)
- Vallikannan (1978)
- Thi. Janakiraman (1979)
- Kannadasan (1980)
- M. Ramalingam (1981)
- B. S. Ramiah (1982)
- T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983)
- Lakshmi (1984)
- A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985)
- Ka. Naa. Subramanyam (1986)
- Aadhavan Sundaram (1987)
- V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988)
- La Sa Ra (1989)
- Su. Samuthiram (1990)
- Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991)
- Kovi. Manisekaran (1992)
- M. V. Venkatram (1993)
- Ponneelan (1994)
- Prapanchan (1995)
- Ashokamitran (1996)
- Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997)
- Sa. Kandasamy (1998)
- S. Abdul Rahman (1999)
- Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)
- C. S. Chellappa (2001)
- Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002)
- Vairamuthu (2003)
- Tamilanban (2004)
- G. Thilakavathi (2005)
- Mu. Metha (2006)
- Neela Padmanabhan (2007)
- Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008)
- Puviarasu (2009)
- Nanjil Nadan (2010)
- S. Venkatesan (2011)
- D. Selvaraj (2012)
- Joe D'Cruz (2013)
- Poomani (2014)
- A. Madhavan (2015)
- Vannadasan (2016)
- Inkulab (2017)
- S. Ramakrishnan (2018)
- Cho Dharman (2019)
- Imayam (2020)
- C. S. Lakshmi (2021)
- M. Rajendran (2022)
- Rajasekaran (Devibharathi) (2023)