Rajam Krishnan Explained

Rajam Krishnan
Birth Name:Rajam Krishnan
Birth Date:1924 or 1925
Birth Place:Musiri, Tiruchirapalli district
Death Date:20 October 2014
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Rajam Krishnan (1924[1] or 1925 – 20 October 2014), was a feminist Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.

Biography

Rajam Krishnan was born in Musiri, Tiruchirapalli district. She had very little formal education and appears to have been largely an autodidact.[2]

She started publishing in her twenties. She is known for writing well researched social novels on the lives of people usually not depicted in modern Tamil literature - poor farmers, salt pan workers, small-time criminals, jungle dacoits, under-trial prisoners and female labourers. She has written more than 80 books.[3] Her works include forty novels, twenty plays, two biographies and several short stories. In addition to her own writing, she was a translator of literature from Malayalam to Tamil.[4] In their anthology of Women's Writing in India in the 19th and 20th Century, Susie J Tharu and K Lalita credit Krishnan with "having set a new trend in Tamil literature," referring to the extensive research that Krishnan did in evaluating social conditions as background for her writing.[4]

In 1973, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for her novel Verukku Neer.[5] In 2009, her works were nationalised by the Government of Tamil Nadu, for a compensation of Rs. 300,000. It was a rare occurrence as only works of dead writers are usually nationalised in Tamil Nadu.[6] [7] [8]

Death

Rajam was left poor and destitute in her later years and had to be admitted to an old age home. She died on 20 October 2014.

Bibliography

Awards and recognitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Writer Rajam Krishnan dead. 22 October 2014. B.. Kolappan. The Hindu.
  2. Book: Tharu, (ed), Susie. Women Writing in India: The Twentieth Century. Feminist Press at CUNY. 1993. 9781558610293. 205–207.
  3. News: Open to life and art. https://web.archive.org/web/20040311195600/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2004/01/04/stories/2004010400350600.htm. dead. 11 March 2004. 4 January 2004. The Hindu. 23 May 2010. Chennai, India.
  4. Susie Tharu and K Lalita, Women Writing In India Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993) 203-206
  5. http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm#tamil Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007
  6. News: Works of writer Rajam Krishnan to be nationalised. https://web.archive.org/web/20110811065936/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-31/chennai/28183081_1_sahitya-akademi-award-nationalisation-works. dead. 11 August 2011. 31 March 2009. The Times of India. 23 May 2010.
  7. News: Metaphor for a generation. https://web.archive.org/web/20121107204849/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2004/01/04/stories/2004010400380600.htm. dead. 7 November 2012. C. S. Lakshmi. C. S. Lakshmi. 4 January 2004. The Hindu. 23 May 2010. Chennai, India.
  8. News: India rights campaign for infanticide mothers. 17 July 2003. BBC News. 23 May 2010. Sampath. Kumar.
  9. Susie Tharu and K Lalita, Women Writing In India (Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993) 203-206

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