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.

In 2002, Era Murukan wrote his first novel on Information Technology, Moondru Viralgal. He mentioned in the conversation that his aim was to give an accurate depiction of the work-life balance and psychological conditions in the modern IT industry.

Translations

Era Murukan translated stories from Malayalam. N.S. Madhavan's novel 'London Patheriyile Luthiniyagal' has been tamilized under the name 'Beerangi Padalgal'. He translated all the poems of Arun Koladkar from English.

General

Era Murukan has written books on Introduction to Information Technology and Introduction to Banking. He has written notes on London life and travelogues.

Movies

Era Murukan has written dialogues in the film industry.

  • Unnai Pol Oruvan (2009)
  • Billa 2 (2011)

Era Murukan has also appeared on screen as an actor in the short film 'Rettai Theru' (2010) based on his script 'Number 40, Rettai Theru'.

Awards

  • Era Murukan is a recipient of Ilakkiya Sinthanai Andiruthi Virudhu, Katha Award, Bharathi University Award etc.
  • The Ghosts of Arasur, an English version of the Arasur Vamsam, has been shortlisted for the Crossword Prize, also known as the Indian Booker Prize.
  • In 2019, he was awarded the Best Translator Award (Malayalam to Tamil) by the 'Literary Garden' of Canada for his book 'Beerangi Padalgal'.
  • In 2019, he was awarded the Malayalam Mahakavi Local Parameswara Iyer Memorial Prize by the Thiruvananthapuram Tamil Society for Malayalam – Tamil Literary Exchange.

Style, Aesthetics

During the period when Era Murukan came to write, he closely followed Sujata's leaping style with comedic sense. After learning and reading Malayalam due to his work in Kerala, he imagined the towns on the border of Kerala and started creating a fictional world of his own by mixing elements of Malayalam culture there. He expanded the scope of that world by mixing Kerala history and temple rituals. Those depictions mixed with parody and micro-criticism created a world for Era Murukan. Later he added Mystical Realist script to it. That style of writing was strengthened in novels like Arasur Vamsam. Finally he incorporated a detailed historical picture in Milagu novel. The essence of life is revealed as a form of absurdity is the view expressed in Era Murukan's fiction. This aesthetic evolution enabled him to extend it from everyday life to history as a whole.

Literary Place

Era Murukan made natural experiments in form and style in his short stories. He established his unique language and purpose in Tamil literature through the novels Arasur Vamsam and Viswarupam, which play with history through subtle mystical reality.

"Through his stories, Murukan portrays history as a meaningless process of life, with appropriate absurdities at every moment. It is one of the unique features of Tamil literature" says writer Jeyamohan. Writer Athmarthi has noted that his place is important in portraying how myths and ancestors have meaning in reality.

Works

Novels
  • Moondru Viral (First Tamil Novel on Computer Industry) Two publications
  • Arasur Vamsam
  • Viswarupam
  • Achutham Kesavam
  • Vaznthu Potheere
  • Number 40, Rettai Theru (Auto Fiction)
  • Theuple Veethi (Auto Fiction)
  • 1975
  • Ramojiyam
  • Milagu
Short Story Collection
  • Ther
  • Athamboorkarargal
  • Silicon Vasal
  • Muthal Attam
  • Aimbathu Paisa Shakespeare
  • Manthiravathiyum Thabal Attaigalum
  • Cycle Muni
  • Era Murukan Short Stories (Classic Edition - 108 Short Stories)
  • Nandu Maram
Short Novels
  • Thavagalkarar
  • Pagal Pathu Rapathu
  • Era Murukan Short Novels
Essay Collections
  • Korikka Konjam Computer Chips (Science Essays – N.C.E.R.T. Award by Government of India)
  • Oru Gramathu Pennin Thalai Prasavam (Poem Collection - Vasudevan Memorial Award)
  • Computer Konjam Kalagalappu Konjam (Science Essay Volume - Co-authored with Rajaraman - Varadachari Award)
  • Rayar Coffee Club
  • London Diary
  • Project M (First Tamil Novel on Project Management)
  • Vembanattu Kayal
  • Etho Oru Pakkam: 23 Essays and 3 Interviews
  • Sattre Naguga
  • Digital Canteen
  • Vangi Minus Vatti: Essays on Islamic Banking
Others
  • Savadi - Play
  • Era Murukan's Venbakkal - Two Collections
  • Modern Poems
  • Era Murukan Short Stories (Audio Book)
Translations
  • Beerangi Padalgal (Novel translated from Malayalam)
Works Translated to English
  • Ghosts of Arasur (novel - translation of 'Arasur vamsam')

Reference

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