Perumal Murugan

MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: After 'Ponniyin Selvan' success, the time is ripe for Tamil literature in Tamil cinema. Vipin Radhakrishnan's 'Angammal', which premiered at Focus South Asia, MAMI 2024, brings Perumal Murugan's short story 'Kodithuni' to life. Murugan has a lot more to offer, filmmakers.

Kerala Literature Festival 2024: Books to build bonds in India's City of Literature

Turkey is the guest country at the seventh edition of Kerala Literature Festival to be held in Kozhikode from January 11 to 14.

Book review | Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird is an exploration of the human desire for permanence and belonging

2023 JCB Prize for Literature winner, Fire Bird, translated by Janani Kannan from Tamil original Aalanda Patchi, is thought-provoking and insightful, and tells stories within stories.

Perumal Murugan wins 2023 JCB Prize for Literature for Fire Bird

Tamil writer Perumal Murugan won the JCB Prize for Literature for his book Fire Bird on Saturday. The book has been translated into English from Tamil by Janani Kannan.

Perumal Murugan's Pyre didn't make the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist. Here's why you should read it any way

Originally published in Tamil in 2013 and translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan in 2016, Perumal Murugan's Pyre is a story of forbidden love.

'Pyre' review | Caste in bold: Perumal Murugan's International Booker longlisted novel is a reality check

Will Perumal Murugan do a Geetanjali Shree and bring home the International Booker Prize? Like all his works, Murugan's inter-caste love tragedy, 'Pyre', translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is accessible, evocative, and a must-read to wrap one's head around caste discrimination.

International Booker longlist | Perumal Murugan: 'I'm writing the dialogue for a feature film based on Pyre'

After last year’s win, Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand), the International Booker Prize 2023 has longlisted this week Perumal Murugan’s 2016 Tamil novel, Pookuzhi (Pyre), translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, a searing indictment of India’s caste system.

International Booker longlist | Why Perumal Murugan’s Pyre is poised to set the world on fire

Written by Perumal Murugan and translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, 'Pyre' is the first Tamil novel to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

International Booker 2023 longlist | Perumal Murugan’s haunting tale of caste oppression

After Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand' won the 2022 International Booker Prize, another Indian novel is in the running for the International Booker this year.

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Originally set up in 1962 as a book distribution house, Westland is set to close down on March 31, 2022.

Mathorubhagan: Flavour of insecure patriarchy gone berserk

The Mathorubhagan plot is frightening to many men precisely because it subliminally stirs this insecurity about infidelity and cuckolding. Patriarchy has no answer to this insecurity beyond trying to wish it away through bans and covering women under a sack.