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| Born | Rajavallipuram S. Krishnasamy 12 November 1920 (1920-11-12) Rajavallipuram, Tinnevely District, Madras Presidency, British India (nowTirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Died | 9 November 2006(2006-11-09) (aged 85) Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India |
| Pen name | Vallikannan |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, scholar |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (1978) |
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Rajavallipuram Subramanian Krishnasamy (Tamil:ரா.சு. கிருஷ்ணசாமி; 12 November 1920 – 9 November 2006), known by hispen nameVallikannan, was aTamil writer, journalist, critic, and translator fromTamil Nadu,India.
Krishnasamy was born inRajavallipuram nearTirunelveli. He started writing at a very young age and had published twenty-five books by the time he was 30. He worked for magazines likeCinema Ulagam,Navasakthi,Grama Oozhiyan andHanuman. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Naiyandi Bharathi" and "Koranathan". He wrote a total of 75 books in his life - novels, novellas, poetry collections, plays and essay anthologies.
In 1978, he was awarded theSahitya Akademi Award forTamil for his critical work on modern Tamil poetryPudukavithaiyin Thottramum Valarchiyum (lit. The birth and growth of Modern Tamil Poetry).[1] He died in 2006.[2][3][4]
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