Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 9789390477920 |
ISBN-13 | 9789390477920 |
No of pages | 320 |
Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
Published Date | 15 Jul 2021 |
Imayam (b. 1964) is the pen name of V. Annamalai, a schoolteacher and writer in Tamil, who has published six novels, Koveru Kazhuthaigal (1994), Arumugam (1999), Chedal (2006), En Kathe (2015), Selladha Panam (2018), and Vaazhga Vaazhga (2020), as well as a novella, Pethavan (2014).
He also has to his credit six short-story collections, Man Baaram (2002), Video Mariamman (2008), Kolai Cheval (2013), Saavu Soru (2014), Narumanam (2016) and Nanmaaran Kottai Kathai (2019). He has won several prestigious awards, including the Agni Akshara Award (1994), Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers’ Association Award (1994), Amuthan Adigal Award for Literature (1998), Tamil Nadu State Award (2010) and Iyal Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). He has also been honoured by the government of Kerala.
Imayam won the Sahitya Academy award 2020 for Selladha Panam. Cre-A Publishers celebrated the silver jubilee of his first novel, Koveru Kazhuthaigal, which is considered one of the classics of present-day Tamil literature, by publishing a special edition last year.
This novel was translated into English by Lakshmi Holmstorm as Beasts of Burden. Arumugam and Pethavan have also been translated into English and French respectively.
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In his path-breaking fiction, The acclaimed Tamil writer I may am has written about the brutal complexities of the caste system and patriarchy in unadorned, powerful prose.
Video mariamman is a collection of fourteen of his finest stories
poonkothai goes looking for her daughter who has eloped with a ‘low-caste’ man, hoping to give the daughter her Certificates and some money so that she can lead a decent life. The ‘stolen girl’, born into a family of black magicians and abducted when she had barely reached puberty, grows up to be a tough survivor who lives life entirely on her own terms.
Srinivasan, a police Constable, tormented after being a pallbearer for a Dalit corpse and horrified by its implications for his social status, decides to quit his job. Chandravadanam, a music prodigy, dies, and kalaiammal, who brought her up without ever entering her house, mourns her death and curses the man for whom she gave up her youth and music. .
In these and ten other stories—translated by Padma Narayanan with great skill and sensitivity proves why he has been hailed as a writer with few equals anywhere, for his deep humanism and fierce sense of justice