Puviarasu
Puviarasu or Puviyarasu, born. 1930), is a Tamil poet
and translator from Tamil Nadu, India. Puviarasu
Born 1930 (age 94–95)
Biography
Puviyarasu was born in a village near Udumalpet. His birth name was S. Jagannathan. Puviyarasu is the
Tamil translation of the Sanskritic "Jagannathan". His family moved to and settled in Coimbatore. He
obtained his intermediate degree from Government Arts College, Coimbatore and his Tamil Vidwan
degree from Perur Tamil College. He worked as a Tamil teacher for more than thirty years. He first
started publishing in 1952. He is a Marxist by political orientation and is an opponent of Dravidian
parties. He was imprisoned for his participation in agitations for making Tamil the administrative
language of Tamil Nadu and the border agitations. He was one of the founders of the short-lived
Vanambadi literary movement. In his literary career he has published more than 80 books. He has also
translated the works of Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Osho, Dostoevsky and
Rabindranath Tagore into Tamil.[1] Some of his poems have been translated into English, Russian,
Hungarian, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Sinhalese. In 2007 he won the Sahitya Akademi Translation
Prize for his poem Puratchikaaran - translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam's The Revolutionary. In 2010, he
was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his poetry collection Kaioppam (lit. The
Signature). The charitable trust Puviyarasu Tamil Valarchi Mayyam (started for training Tamil teachers
properly) has been named after him. He currently lives in Coimbatore.[2][3][4]
Partial bibliography
Poetry
Kaioppam
Ettu thisai kaatru
Kavithaikenna Kelvi
Meendum zen kavithaikal
Idu dhan
Vaasippu
Translations
The Book of Mirdad by Mikha'il Na'ima
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Drama
Manidhan
Moondram pirai
Awards and recognitions
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (2007)
Kalaignar Porkizhi Award (2008)
Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil (2009)
Sahitya Puraskar Award from Kerala Cultural Centre
Books
His books are available as ebooks at Pustaka (http://www.pustaka.co.in/home/author/tamil/puviyarasu)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20161018224144/http://www.pustaka.co.in/home/author/tamil/pu
viyarasu) 18 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
References
1. "Memories of Tagore in city | Coimbatore News - Times of India" (https://timesofindia.indiati
mes.com/city/coimbatore/memories-of-tagore-in-city/articleshow/10897898.cms). The Times
of India. TNN. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
2. Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 (http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/a
wa10320.htm#tamil) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20100124032426/http://www.sah
itya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm) 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
Sahitya Akademi Official website.
3. "Sahitya Akademi award for Puviarasu" (https://web.archive.org/web/20091227234146/htt
p://www.hindu.com/2009/12/24/stories/2009122460580700.htm). The Hindu. 24 December
2009. Archived from the original (http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/24/stories/20091224605807
00.htm) on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
4. " 'Younger generation has social consciousness but no pace' " (https://web.archive.org/web/
20100115164853/http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/11/stories/2010011154380500.htm). The
Hindu. 11 January 2010. Archived from the original (http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/11/storie
s/2010011154380500.htm) on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
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