Vannadasan Explained

Vannadasan
Pseudonym:	Vannadasan, Kalyanji
Birth Name:	Siva Kalyana Sundaram
Birth Date:	22 August 1946
Birth Place:	Tinnevelly, Madras Province, British India (now Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India)
Occupation:	Poet, novelist, short story writer
Language:	Tamil
Nationality:	Indian
Relatives:	Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (father)
Awards:	Sahitya Akademi Award (2016) Vishnupuram Literary Award (2016)

Vannadasan, aka Kalyanji is a Tamil writer from India. He was born as Siva Kalyana Sundaram in Tirunelveli in 1946, where he currently resides.. He is a son of Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran, a renowned Tamil writer. He writes short stories and non fiction articles under the pseudonym of Vannadhasan and poems under Kalyanji.^[1] He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 2016 for his short story collection Oru Siru Isai.^[2] He is also a recipient of Vishnupuram Literary Award, which he also won in 2016.
He is a retired bank employee.

List of books

• சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்புகள்: (Short stories)
• kalaikka Mudiyaatha Oppanaigal - கலைக்க முடியாத ஒப்பனைகள்-1976
• Thottathukku veliyilum sila pookkal - தோட்டத்துக்கு வெளியிலும் சில பூக்கள்-1978
• Samaveli - சமவெளி-1983
• Peyar Theriyamal oru paravai - பெயர் தெரியாமல் ஒரு பறவை-1985
• Manusha Manusha - மனுஷா மனுஷா-1990
• Kanivu - கனிவு-1992
• Nadugai - நடுகை-1996
• Uyara parathal - உயரப் பறத்தல்-1998
• Krishnan Vaitha veedu - கிருஷ்ணன் வைத்த வீடு-2000
• Oliyile Therivadhu - ஒளியிலே தெரிவது-2010
• Oru Siru Isai - ஒரு சிறு இசை-2013
• Naabi kamalam -நாபிக்கமலம் -2015

Some of his poems are translated by Jayanthasri Balakrishnan in English in her blog, though not published.^[3]

Articles

• Agam Puram in Anandha Viktan.

See also

• List of Indian writers

Notes and References

1. Book: Mohan Lal. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. 22 December 2016. 1992. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-260-1221-3. 4490.
2. Web site: Kolappan . B . Vannadasan wins Sahitya Akademi award . The Hindu . 2016-12-21 . 2016-12-21.
3. Web site: jayanthasri translations. 2017-04-20.