Ka. Na. Subramaniam | |
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| Born | 31 January 1912 Valangaiman, British India |
| Died | 18 December 1988(1988-12-18) (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Writer |
Ka. Naa. Subramanyam (31 January 1912 – 18 December 1988)[1] was aTamil writer and critic fromTamil Nadu,India. He is also popularly known by his Tamil initials asKa. Naa. Su.
Subramanian was born on 31 January 1912 inValangaiman inThanjavur District. His first noted published work was the novelPoithevu (1946). He also wrote poems under the pseudonymMayan. He published many literary journals likeIlakkiya vattam,Sooravali andChandraodayam. He became a literary critic in the 1950s, publishing reviews first in the magazinesSwadesamitran andSaraswathi. He was a friend and contemporary of fellow literary criticC. S. Chellappa with whom he was involved in a long literary feud. He was considered as a right-winger andAnti-Marxist by left-leaning Tamil writers. In 1965, he moved toNew Delhi and started writing articles for English-language newspapers. For the next twenty years he lived in Delhi and moved back to Chennai only in 1985. In 1986, he was awarded theSahitya Akademi Award forTamil for his literary criticismIlakkiyathukku oru Iyakkam (lit. A Movement for Literature). After his return to Chennai, he started writing for Tamil magazines likeKungumam,Mutharam,Dina mani Kathir andThuglak.Pondicherry University made him an honorary professor. He died in 1988. TheGovernment of Tamil Nadu nationalised his works in 2006.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
