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Tamil Encyclopedia

This is, first and foremost, an effort to consolidate authentic information about books, authors, academia and organizations relating to modern Tamil literature. Apart from literature, this is also intended to be a repository of information about Tamil history and culture.

The information gathered by dedicated contributors - both literary scholars and readers - is reviewed by the editorial team of senior writers and researchers of literature. Before publication, it is vetted by the advisory team.

Editorial Team Chief Editor: A.K. Perumal A.K. Perumal is a literary historian and a leading researcher of Tamil folklore. He guides the development and functioning of this encyclopedia of arts. (More...) Editors - Academia Professor. C. Mounaguru A professor of drama, a researcher of performing arts, an actor and teacher of therukoothu. Through his research, he established the relationship between Tamil and Sinhalese art forms in Sri Lanka (More...) Professor M. Subramaniam Formerly, a professor of English at Hindu College, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu. He has translated important works and been a part many studies of folklore (More...) Dr. P. Saravanan A Tamil teacher, he has written novels, short stories, poetry, and essays on history for the common reader. (More...) Professor D.V. Jegadeesan Professor Sivakumaran Editors - Creative Nanjil Nadan A pre-eminent writer in modern Tamil literature. He captured the life of the people from the Nanjil region in his writing. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 (More...) Cho. Dharman A writer whose work straddles novels, short stories, and folklore. He carved a unique place for himself in literary naturalism, a movement that caught the fancy of the Tamil literary world in the nineties. In 2019, his novel Sool, won a Sahitya Akademi Award. (More...) File:Suneel Krishnan 150px.jpg Suneel Krishnan Writer, ayurvedic doctor and neo-Gandhian. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar in 2018. (More...) Jeyamohan Tamil writer and critic. Apart from novels, short stories, and literary criticism, he writes on a wide range of subjects including heritage, environment, Gandhism and philosophy. Vishnupuram Literary Circle is an organisation run by his friends. (More...) Suchitra Suchitra is a writer whose works include short stories and literary reviews. She is an award winning translator, working between Tamil and English. (More)

Coordinators Chaidhanya Santhosh Saravanan, works as a manager at Bhoomi, a volunteer drive not for profit organization. He also contributes to the functioning of the Vishnupuram Literary Circle. Madhusudhan Sampath, Chennai. He works in the artificial intelligence domain.