Krishnan Nambi
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Krishnan Nambi (ஜூலை 24, 1932 - ஜூன் 16, 1976), is a writer who had written short stories in Tamil language. He had also written literature for children. His language diction is soft and teasing. He and Sundara Ramaswamy were known as the Literary twins. His stories construct the inner world within children with subtlety.
Birth and Education
Krishnan Nambi's original name is Azhagiya Nambi. He was born to Krishnayyar - Kamalatchi Ammal , on July 24, 1932 at a hamlet called Azhagiyapandiyapuram. This hamlet is situated around eight miles from the city of Nagercoil in Kanyakumar district of Tamil Nadu state, India. He had two sisters and one brother.
Krishnan Nambi's father whose profession was Agriculture, started a fertilizer business in Nagercoil in the second half of 1939. The family relocated to Nagercoil in 1940 when Krishnan Nambi was eight. In Nagercoil, he cleared his eigth standard and school final year on his second attempt. He joined intermediate at the Hindu College in Nagercoil. There he discontinued his studies as he could not clear the examination.
Private life
Krishnan Nambi started looking after his father's fertilizer business after stopping his education. On August 20, 1958, he got the job of an editor in the magazine "Navasakthi" in Madras based on the recommendation by Congress freedom fighter Kodumudi Rajagopalan. As his health continued to deteriorate in Madras, he quit the job and returned to Nagercoil. He looked after agriculture for some time. When his father fell sick, management of the fertilizer business fell on Nambi's shoulders. As the business was not doing well in Nagercoil, he shifted with family to Boothapandi in the second half of 1963 and opened a shop there. When his father's health further deteriorated, he returned to his native hamlet Azhagiyapandiyapuram.
Krishnan Nambi married Jeyalakshmi and they had three sons and two daughters namely Muralikrishnan, Raghuraman (died - 1986), Seenivasan, Kamali and Seetha.
Literary life
Krishnan Nambi's entry into Tamil literature started 1948 via his essay titled Naattuppadalgal published in Sakthi magazine belonging to Vai. Govindan . He was sixteen years old and studying in the tenth standard at that time. His first short story that came in print was "Sudhanthira Thinam" (1951). Krishnan Nambi's early writings were published in magazines "Santhi", "Saraswathi" which were run by Communists Tho.Mu.C Raghunathan, Va. Vijayabaskaran. Subsequently he started writing in magazines like Thamarai, Kalaimagal, Sathangai, Ananda Vikatan, Kanaiyazhi, Deepam etc.
Krishnan Nambi wrote children songs in the magazine Kannan which was owned by the Kalaimagal company. He wrote these songs under the pseudonym of "Sasidevan". His early attempts in literature were mostly in the genre of children songs.
