The Prince Who Became a Monk and Other Stories from Tamil Literature [Paperback] - Softcover

M.L. Thangappa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9351951138 ISBN 13: 9789351951131

Publisher: Hachette India, 2016

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About the Author:

M.L. Thangappa (1934) was born in Kurumbalapperi, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu. Educated at St. Johns College, Palayamkottai, he taught Tamil for over twenty-five years in the various colleges of the Puducherry government until his retirement in 1994. He was on the editorial board of the Tamil monthly, Thenmoli (196267). He has published a number of books of poetry and essays in Tamil including Adichuvadukal, Uyirppin Athirvukal, Ethu Valkai? and Nunmaiyai Nokki. His translations from Tamil literature into English range from Sangam poetry and didactic poetry to the songs of Saint Ramalingam, Subramania Bharati and Bharatidasan. He has won the Bharatidasan Award (1991) of the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Sirpi Literary Award (2007) for lifetime achievement in poetry. Active in the Tamil language rights movement, he is also a founding member of the Puducherry Ecological Society. Two of his translations from the Tamil classics have been published as Penguin classics: Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry in 2010 and Red Lilies and Frightened Birds (a translation of Muttollayiram) in 2010. Love Stands Alone won the Sahitya Akademi award for the best translation of a regional work into English (2012). Thangappa lives with his family in Puducherry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette India
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9351951138
• ISBN 13: 9789351951131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128