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Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
Birth Name:Tirunelveli Ganapathy Sivasankaran
Birth Date:30 March 1925
Birth Place:Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu
Death Place:Tirunelveli
Nationality:Indian
Occupation:Writer

Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran or T. G. Sivasankaran (30 March 1925 – 25 March 2014),[1] was a Tamil writer and critic from Tamil Nadu, India. He is popularly known by his Tamil initials as Thi. Ka. Si.

Sivasankaran was born in Tirunelveli. His works were first published in the literary journal Grama oozhiyan in 1947.[2] He was a Marxist by political orientation and a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was influential in the party's literary journal Thamarai. He was a friend and contemporary of socialist writers like Vallikannan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan. During his years in Thamarai, he was instrumental in discovering and encouraging new writers like Prapanchan, D. Selvaraj, Poomani, Vannadhasan, Tamil Nadan and Jayanthan.[3] In 2000, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary criticism Vimarsanangal Mathippuraikal Pettikal (lit. Criticisms, Reviews and Interviews).[4] [5] In 2008, a documentary film on him was released by the Chennai Tamil Koodam.[6] In 2010, the formation of a charitable trust in his name at the Thanjavur Tamil University was announced.[7] [8] He is the father of Tamil writer Vannadhasan.[9]

Awards and recognitions

Partial bibliography

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: His pen cut a huge swathe. 25 April 2014. thehindu.com. 27 March 2014.
  2. Book: G. John Samuel. Studies in Tamil poetry. 1978. Mani Pathippakam. 133.
  3. Web site: Rajaram. Gopal. சாகித்ய அகதமி பரிசு பெறும் தி க சிவசங்கரன். Thinnai. 30 July 2010.
  4. http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm#tamil Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007
  5. News: பள்ளிகளில் தமிழ் பயிற்று மொழி எழுத்தாளர் தி.க.சி., வேண்டுகாள். https://web.archive.org/web/20110929112814/http://www.dinamalar.com/General_detail.asp?news_id=23135. dead. 29 September 2011. 30 July 2010. Dinamalar. 22 March 2010.
  6. Web site: தி.க.சி. 21--_இ, சுடலைமாடன் தெரு, திருநெல்வேலி டவுன்.. Vadakku Vasal. 30 July 2010.
  7. News: அனைத்துவழி கல்வி முறையிலும் தமிழை பயிற்றுமொழியாக்க வேண்டும்: தி.க.சி.. 30 July 2010. Dinamani. 22 March 2010. Tamil. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002013022/http://www.dinamani.com/edition/story.aspx?SectionName=Tamilnadu&artid=215281&SectionID=129&MainSectionID=129&SEO=&Title=%u0b85%u0ba9%u0bc8%u0ba4%u0bcd%u0ba4%u0bc1%u0bb5%u0bb4%u0bbf+%u0b95%u0bb2%u0bcd%u0bb5%u0bbf+%u0bae%u0bc1%u0bb1%u0bc8%u0baf%u0bbf%u0bb2%u0bc1%u0bae%u0bcd+%u0ba4%u0bae%u0bbf%u0bb4%u0bc8+%u0baa%u0baf%u0bbf%u0bb1%u0bcd%u0bb1%u0bc1%u0bae%u0bca%u0bb4%u0bbf%u0baf%u0bbe%u0b95%u0bcd%u0b95+%u0bb5%u0bc7%u0ba3%u0bcd%u0b9f%u0bc1%u0bae%u0bcd:+%u0ba4%u0bbf.%u0b95.%u0b9a%u0bbf.. 2 October 2011. dead. dmy-all.
  8. Web site: Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran profile. Tamil Authors. 30 July 2010.
  9. Book: Datta, Amaresh. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay-Zorgot. 1992. Sahitya Akademi. 4490. 9780836422832.

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