Cho Dharman (born 8 August 1953) is an
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writer. He was born in
Kovilpatti
Kovilpatti is an Industrial City and Special Grade Municipality in Thoothukudi District in the Indian States of India, state of Tamil Nadu.
History
The town already existed before 1876. Kovilpatti was a water stop for steam engines after the ...
Taluk in
Tuticorin
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district of Tamil Nadu. The real name is S. Dharmaraj. Cho Dharman's novel Koogai, a stunning account of Tamil lives in post-independence India, was translated into English as ''The Owl''. Cho, has authored nine books, won several awards and much critical acclaim for his novels, non-fiction and short stories. He won the
Sahitya Akademi award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
in 2019 under
Tamil language
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category for his novel ''Sool''.
Books
* (Sool /சூல்)
* Thoorvai (தூர்வை)
* Cho. Dharman Kadhaigal
* Eeram
* Sokavanam
* Koogai: The Owl
* (Pathimoonaavathu maiyyavaadi /பதிமூனாவது மையவாடி)
Awards and honours
* Sahitya Academy Award Winner at 2019
References
External links
பதிமூனாவது மையவாடி’: இலக்கியமா, பிரச்சாரமா?-https://www.hindutamil.in/news/literature/568784-book-review.html
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Tamil writers
1953 births
Living people
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil
20th-century Indian writers
21st-century Indian writers