Venkat Swaminathan (1 June 1933 - 21 October 2015) was a
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nati ...
writer and popular
literary critic
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
. Born in
Udaiyalur near
Kumbakonam
Kumbakonam (formerly spelt as Coombaconum or Combaconum) or Kudanthai is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the States of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located from Thanjavur and from Chennai and is the headq ...
, he worked in the
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*Intelligence Bureau for the East, a World War I German organisation
*Intelligence agency
*National Intelligence Servic ...
(IB) and spent his professional life in Delhi. Post-retirement, he lived in
Chennai and moved to
Bangalore after his wife's death. He died in 2015 and is survived by a son.
C. S. Chellappa
Cinnamanur Subramaniam Chellappa ( ta, சி. சு. செல்லப்பா) (29 September 1912 – 18 December 1998) was a Tamil writer, journalist and Indian independence movement activist. He belonged to the "Manikodi" literary movemen ...
and
Ka. Naa. Subramanyam
Ka. Naa. Subramanyam (31 January 1912 – 18 December 1988) was a Tamil writer and critic from Tamil Nadu, India. He is also popularly known by his Tamil initials as Ka. Naa. Su.
Biography
Subramanian was born on 31 January 1912 in Valang ...
brought Swaminathan to the literary field, and his first work was published in ''Ezhuthu'' run by Chellappa. He also brought out his own magazine ''Yatra''. He was writing from 1959 till his death in 2015.
1933 births
2015 deaths
Tamil writers
People from Thanjavur district
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