Era Murukan

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Era Murukan (Born: 1953) is a modern Tamil Writer. He has been continuously contributing in all fields of Tamil literature like novels, short stories, poems and essays. Active since 1977, Era Murukan evolved from Poetry Short Stories and Short Novels into Novels. He has also contributed to Stage play and Screenplay dialogue. A writer of Satirical Fiction in the Mystical Realist style.

Era Murukan has also written Travel-history Articles, Literary, Mass Press Columns, Introduction to Technology in Tamil, Introduction to Management, Introduction to Islamic Banking. He has been translating Novels, Short Stories and Poems from Malayalam to Tamil. He also writes Poems and Columns in English.

Birth, Education

Era Murukan was born in Sivagangai in 1953 to N.C. Ramasamy and Meenakshi couple. He completed his schooling from King's High School, Sivagangai and college from Tagore College, Puducherry.

Personal Life

Era Murukan worked as a branch officer in Bank for eight years. From there, he joined the IT department as a techno banker designing and developing computer software for the next fifteen years in the banking computer department. Later he moved to a private IT multinational company. He has worked as a General Manager in banking technology and project management departments in India, Britain, Thailand, and the United States and has retired and lives in Chennai.

Married in 1982, wife Girija. Daughter Aishwarya and son Ashwin Murugan. Ashwin Murugan is an Indian Cricketer. Era Murukan's wife Girija passed away due to leukemia in December 2020.

Literary Life

Era Murukan's first work is a poem called Theru. Released in Kanaiyazhi on 1978. Till 2022, 39 books have been published in the form of Novels, Short Stories, Essays and Translations.

Era Murukan's ten novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three volumes of short novels, two books on computer science, a travel book and two volumes of literary essays, and a Tamil book translated from Malayalam (Beerangi Padalgal) have been published. A book written on writer Sujatha has also been published as requested by the Sahitya Academy among the Sculptors of Indian Literature. Apart from these, fifteen books have been published as separate e-books.

Era Murukan cites writers Sundara Ramasamy, Sujatha, Kafka, Gunther Gross, Gabriel García Márquez, Primo Levi, Vaikam Mohammad Basheer and poet Meera as pioneers who influenced his literary work. In Tamil he cites Pudumaipithan and Bharathiar as ideals for his mystic realism fictions.

Poems

Era Murukan came to notice as a writer of poems in Kanaiyazhi. Among his satirical and pictorial poems, a work titled 'Oru Gramathu Pennin Thalaiprasavam' was published in Kanaiyazhi in 1986. Writer Sujatha praised it and introduced him to literary readers. In 2000, the poems of Era Murukan were published as a book under the name 'Oru Gramathu Pennin Thalaiprasavam' under Snega publications.

Short Stories

Era Murukan initially wrote stories depicting realistic images with direct parody. Later on his aesthetics featured mystical realism. He fictionalized places like Adhampur and Vishnupuram as a backdrop of Kerala's Palakkad in his stories. His short story collection Athampoorkarargal gained wide attention.

Novels

A series of novels called 'Arasur Novelgal' is among the novels of Era Murukan with mystical aesthetics. Set in the period 1850 – 1960, the four novels are based on the legend of a family rooted in Tamil Nadu and Kerala – Arasur Vamsam, Viswaroopam, Achutham Kesavam, and Vaznthu Bodheere.

The 2022 novel Milagu also features characters from the Arasur Vamsam novel series. The first novel in this series, Ghosts of Arasur, has been translated into English. (See Arasur Novels).

Ramojiyam is the revelation of Era Murukan's satirist and the purpose of approaching the life of ordinary people who are stuck in the day-to-day life from a sympathetic point of view (see Ramojiyam).

The 2022 novel Milagu is based on Chennabairadevi who ruled the country of Kerusopa (part of Karnataka) in the sixteenth century and the pepper trade with Portugal. This novel, which presents the history we know, layered, with a consistent logical order and timeline through various common people and historical men, and shows it in different colored pictures, has a language style that mixes spoken and written languages ​​of different centuries. (See Milagu).

The World of Information Technology

The works related to information technology written by Era Murukan are the pioneering works of the Tamil literary world related to that field. Since 1990 stories such as Silicon Vasal, Lazarus Narpathu, Ilaipparuthal have been talking about people working at middle or junior levels in the IT industry. The first two appeared in the India Today Tamil magazine and Ilaipparuthal came in literary magazine Uyirmai. Era Murukan wrote a story called 24X7 for Vikatan Collection, which satirically depicts labor without holidays.