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Sa. Kandasamy (23 July 1940[1] – 31 July 2020)[2] was anovelist and documentary film-maker fromMayiladuthurai in theIndianstate ofTamil Nadu. Schooling in Koorainadu,Mayiladuthurai & Singarampillai High School,Villivakam, Chennai
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil for his novel,Vicharanai Commission in 1998.[2]
Kandasamy was born on 23 July 1940 inMayiladuthurai, in the Indian state ofTamil Nadu.[3] After studying at the Singaram Pillai School, he worked at the Chennai Port Trust and theFood Corporation of India.[4][5]
Kandasamy later moved to Chennai, and joined a writers' Association writerCre-A-Ramakrishnan, N.Krishnamoorthy, Ramu and artist K. M. Adimoolam. They briefly published a literary little magazine,Ka Sa Da Tha Pa Ra.[4]
He died at the age of 80.
Kandasamy's first novel wasChaayavanam, published in 1968 by Ms Lakshmi Krishna Murthy at Vasagar Vattam Publication. It was well-received and was later included by the National Book Trust as one of Indian literature's modern masterpieces.[3]Chaayavanam is one of the earliest examples of literature focusing on ecological concerns in India, and focuses on forest clearances and industrial development in Tamil Nadu.[4] Kandasamy based on the novel on his own experiences in rural Tamil Nadu, and named the novel after a village that he had lived in with his family, as a child.[4]
His novel,Vicharanai Commission, which dealt with custodial violence and the police, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 1998.[5]
He has published seven novels and several collection of short stories, inTamil. One of Kandasamy's novels,Tholaindhu ponavargal was adapted for Doordarshan Kendra Chennai.[2]
In addition to fiction, Kandasamy wrote several pieces of criticism, focusing on visual arts and writing in Tamil Nadu, as well as introducing a series of Tamil biographies published by the Sahitya Akademi.[4] One of his short stories "Paaichal" is the Supplementary lesson of Unit 5 in Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi Class 10 portion (New 7 units edition).
Kandasamy's documentary film,Kaval Deivangal, documented history and techniques relating to traditional terracotta art in South India.[4] It won the first prize at the Angino Film Festival, in Cyprus, in 1989.[6] In addition, Kandasamy also directed several other documentaries, primarily on popular Tamil writers and artists, including the Sculptor S.Dhanapal, and writersJayakanthan andAshokamitran.[5]
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