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S. Ramakrishnan
எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
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Born April 13, 1966 (age 52)
Tamil Nadu, India
Residence Chennai, Tamilnadu
Spouse(s) Chandraprabha
Children Hari
Akash
Parent(s)
N.Shanmugam
S.Mangayarkarasi
Website sramakrishnan.com
S. Ramakrishnan is an influentially important writer of modern Tamil literature. He is a full-time writer who has been active over the last 27 years in diverse areas of Tamil literature like short stories, novels, plays, children’s literature and translations. He has written and published 9 novels, 20 collections of short stories, 3 plays, 21 books for children, 3 books of translation, 24 collections of articles, 10 books on world cinema, 16 books on world literature including seven of his lectures, 3 books on Indian history, 3 on painting and 4 edited volumes including a Reader on his own works. He also has 2 collections of interviews to his credit.[1]


Contents
1 Early life
2 Writing career
3 Writing style
4 Literary activism
5 Publishing House 'Desanthiri'
6 Films and other adoptions (contributions in movie and theatre performances)
7 Personal life
8 Rewards and Recognition
9 Bibliography
9.1 Novels
9.2 Short stories
9.3 Plays
9.4 Children literature
9.5 Seven lectures
9.6 Essays on World literarture
9.7 Essays on Poetry
9.8 Essays on Painting
9.9 Essays on Cinema
9.10 Anthologies of Essays
9.11 History - Non fiction
9.12 Interviews
9.13 Other books - Edited volumes
9.14 Translation
9.15 Filmography
9.16 Shortfilms
10 References
11 Video links
12 External links
Early life[edit]
Born in 1966, he is a native of Mallankinar village of Virudhunagar district of Tamilnadu. His father N.Shanmugam was a veterinary doctor. His mother is S.Mangayarkarasi. He studied M.A in Senthilkumar Nadar College, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu. And he did his M.Phil in Madurai Kamarajar University and Ph.D in Calicut University. But he left before submitting the thesis.

Writing career[edit]
About his first book he says: "I was not a writer when my first book ‘veLiyil oruvan’ was published. Until then I was just writing whatever I wanted to write, but I was not a writer; even after my first book came out…" and "…but now I know the direction, purpose and strength of the written word. I didn’t know that then. It is like how a child with a camera takes pictures of whatever she sees… I was like that child."[2]

His short stories and articles have been translated and published in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada and French.

His novel Upa Paandavam, written after a deep research into Mahabharata, was selected as the best novel in Tamil. It was widely well received by the readers.