Imayam

Imayam is an Indian Tamil-language novelist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has ten novels, nine short story collections and a novella to his credit. Widely acknowledged for his realist mode of writing, his stories are known for their incisive exploration of societal intricacies. Closely associated with the Dravidian Movement and its politics, he is considered as one of the leading writers from South India. He is the recipient of the honorary Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Selladha Panam in 2020. He is also the first Tamil writer to receive the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar National Award (2022) for bringing new sensibilites to Tamil literature through his writings. Noting the writer’s proclivity to Dravidian ideals, the Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K.Stalin called him “an ideologue donned in black and red”. He lauded Imayam calling him a “proactive writer” in the Dravidian movement.

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