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Today, with over short stories, nine novels , and several non-fiction essays and translations, Ashokamitran is seen as a major contributor to the modern history of Tamil literature. D Alexander Hamilton. Get the app. Ashokamitran received the K. The individual, isolated and forsaken, is left to deal with his day-to-day struggles.

He has written that he was related to the writers B. Parthasarathy D. Indian Express. Sri Acharya M. His essays were no pushovers either, he said, adding that Ashokamitran had a flat style of writing. He took up a minor role in the play Vanavil Rainbow written and enacted by Ramanarasu. Ashokamitran's life and work have been the subject of three documentary films, made by Amshan Kumar, Kandasamy, and Gnani.

A distinguished essayist and critic, he is the editor of the literary journal "Kanaiyaazhi". Birla fellowship for a thesis on comparative Indian literature.

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English Home - English English pages Contact. Works [ edit ]. Kandasamy S. His stories were largely set in the three milieus where he spent most of his life: Secunderabad of his childhood years, the film industry where he found shelter during the first fifteen years of his working life, and a city like Madras whose inhabitants were constantly besieged by the pressures of urban existence.

Ashokamitran, who died on Thursday in Chennai at the age of 85, was a colossus among Indian writers of his time. Somasundaram Akilan P. A Benjamin Franklin. He wrote conversations in a standard prose but later adopted a generalized colloquial language, although he never used local dialects. Hidden categories: CS1 errors: generic name Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use dmy dates from January Use Indian English from January All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Biographies with insufficient biographical information Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March Articles with unsourced statements from January His style was characterized by simplistic skeletal prose and avoidance of elaborate descriptions.

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Vasan to come work at Vasan's Gemini Studios. Gift Membership. His works are characterized by simplicity and clarity of thought and drew from his professional and personal experiences. Later in life, Ashokamitran wrote memoirs of his youth. He began his prolific literary career with the prize-winning play "Anbin Parisu" and went on to author more than two hundred short stories, and a dozen novellas and novels.

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