Sirpi Balasubramaniam | |
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| Born | (1936-07-29)29 July 1936 (age 89) |
| Occupations | poet, critic |
Sirpi Balasubramaniam (born 29 July 1936) is aTamil poet, critic, scholar and professor fromTamil Nadu, India.
Balasubramaniam was born in Aaththupollachi village in PollachiCoimbatore District. He obtained his MA fromAnnamalai University and PhD fromMadras University. He worked as a lecturer in NGM college,Pollachi. He then became a Professor at the Tamil department ofBharathiar University. He eventually became the head of the Department. He was a founding member of the Vanambadi literary movement in the 1970s. He edited the movement's flagship journal of the same name and also another literary magazine calledAnnam vidu thoothu. He has published more than a dozen works of poetry and literary criticism in his literary career. In 2003, he was awarded theSahitya Akademi Award forTamil for his poetry collectionOru Giraamattu Nadhi (lit. River in a Hamlet ). He had earlier won theSahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2001 for his translation ofLalithambika Antharjanam'sAgnisakshi into Tamil. He is the current convener of the Akademi's Tamil advisory board.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
The English translation of his poem collectionPoojiyangalin Sangili is published byJayanthasri Balakrishnan asThe Chain of Absolutes.[8]
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