K. D. Thirunavukkarasu

K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (Tamil: க. த. திருநாவுக்கரசு, b. 1931 -) is a Tamil scholar, writer, critic and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.^[1]

Biography

Thirunavukkarasu is an alumnus of Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai.^[2] He obtained a M.A, M. Litt and a PhD and worked as a professor at the International Institute of Tamil Studies in Chennai. In 1974, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary criticism Thirukkural Needhi Illakkiyam (lit. Thirukkural, a moralist literature).^[3]

Partial bibliography

Chieftains of the Sangam age
A Critical study of Dr. Mu. Va's works
Thirukkural needhi illakkiyam
Thirukkural karpanai thiranum nataka nalanum
Arunmozhi aayvuth thogudhi
Then kizhakku aasiya nadugalil thamilar panpadu
(trans.)Rajaram mohan roy (biography)
(trans.)Jeevanandha Das (biography)

References

↑ "Books on Tamil Culture & Tamil History". Tamil Electronic Library. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
↑ "List of Distinguished Alumini". Pachaiyappa's College. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
↑ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Sahitya Akademi Official website.

Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil language

1955-1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) C. Rajagopalachari (1958) Mu. Varadarajan (1961) Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) Akilan (1963) P. Sri Acharya (1965) Ma. Po. Si. (1966) K. V. Jagannathan (1967) A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) Bharatidasan (1969) Ku. Alagirisami (1970) Na. Parthasarathy (1971) D. Jayakanthan (1972) Rajam Krishnan (1973) K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) R. Dhandayudham (1975)

1976-2000	Indira Parthasarathy (1977) Vallikannan (1978) Thi. Janakiraman (1979) Kannadasan (1980) M. Ramalingam (1981) B. S. Ramaiya (1982) T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) La Sa Ra (1989) Su. Samuthiram (1990) Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) M. V. Venkatram (1993) Ponneelan (1994) Prapanchan (1995) Ashoka Mitran (1996) Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) Sa. Kandasamy (1998) S. Abdul Rahman (1999) Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)

2001-present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) Vairamuthu (2003) Tamilanban (2004) G. Thilakavathi (2005) Mu. Metha (2006) Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) Puviarasu (2009) Nanjil Nadan (2010) Su. Venkatesan (2011) D. Selvaraj (2012) Joe D'Cruz (2013) Poomani (2014)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 117637042 SUDOC: 069335311

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