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- Balakumaran (5 July 1946 – 15 May 2018) was an Indian Tamil writer and author of over 200 novels, 100 short stories, and dialogue/screenplay writer for 23 films. He also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam.
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His first stories were published in a literary magazine called 'ka-ca-da-ta-pa-Ra' and for which he was also a founding member of KaChaTaThaPaRa, a self-anointed militant literary journal that had been launched with a mission to blaze new trails in modernist literature and later in Kumudam.
Balakumaran, one of the leading writers and novelists of the century, was born on 5th July 1946 at Pazhamarneri near Thirukkattupalli in Thanjavur District. After passing out of the high school, he qualified himself in shorthand and typewriting and started his career as a steno and then made his mark as an official in a tractor company.
- From Poetry to Fiction
- A Voice For The Individual
- A Foray Into Film
Though he seemed to be constantly under the spell of poetry, Balakumaran was also alive to the real world around him. He often spoke of the violence unleashed in the factory that employed him, by goons from a political party that was bent on capturing control of the trade union. He was always “reading” people and situations, in a never-ceasing atte...
Starting from the late seventies, Balakumaran wrote a series of highly successful popular novels in which he delineated the conflicts experienced by conventional middle-class adults in a modernising society, and rendered them intelligible as never before. He wrote of the lives of men who worked in factories and small offices; and women who toiled i...
As he grew older, the writer became interested in history and tracing his own origins. Appam, Vadai, Thayirsadam was a splendid novel that followed the migration and rise of a poor Brahmin family from the Cauvery delta region through the latter part of British rule and the initial decades of Independence. Udaiyaris a multi-volume historical saga si...
Balakumaran (5 July 1946 – 15 May 2018) was an Indian Tamil writer and author of over 200 novels, 100 short stories, and dialogue/screenplay writer for 23 films. He also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam. His notable works as a dialogue writer in Tamil Cinema include Nayakan, Guna, Baashha and Pudhupettai.
May 28, 2018 · Sulochana, teacher of 36 years, a Tamil scholar and voracious reader of both classical and modern Tamil literature, and mother of Balakumaran was the person behind his success as a writer.
May 21, 2018 · Sulochana, teacher of 36 years, a Tamil Pandit and voracious reader of both classical and modern Tamil literature, and mother of Balakumaran was the person behind his success as a writer.
May 17, 2018 · In short, Balakumaran is a best-selling author in Tamil. His serial on Ramana Maharishi in a fortnightly was later published as a book and showed his prowess in handling spiritual subjects. His...
