Vishnupuram Award is a literary award instituted by '' Vishnupuram Ilakkiya Vattam'', the literary organization created by writer

Jeyamohan Bahuleyan Jeyamohan (born 22 April 1962) is an Indian Tamil and Malayalam language writer and literary critic from Nagercoil in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His best-known and most critically acclaimed work is ''Vishnupuram'', a fantas ...

and his readers. The award was named after the writer's famous novel in Tamil, ''Vishnupuram''. This award was initiated to honour the under-recognized pioneers and senior writers in Tamil literature. This contains cash award of Rs 1,00,000 and a memento, a book on the author will be published and a documentary on the awardee release during the occasion.

Recipients

* A Madhavan (2010) *

Poomani Poomani (born 1947) is an Indian writer and novelist. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2014 in the List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Tamil, Tamil language category for his novel Agnaadi. Life and works Poomani was born in 1947 into ...

(2011) * Devadevan (2012) * Thelivathai Joseph (2013) * Gnanakoothan (2014) * Devathachan (2015) * Vannadhasan (2016) * C.Muthusamy (2017) * Raj Gauthaman (2018) * Abi (Habibullah) (2019) * Sureshkumara Indrajith (2020) * Poet Vikramadityan (2021) *

Charu Nivedita Charu Nivedita aka Charu (born 18 December 1953) is a Tamil writer based in Chennai, India. His novel '' Zero Degree'' (1998) was translated into English in 2013 and longlisted that year for the annual Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. It wa ...

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References

https://www.jeyamohan.in/170951/ Tamil-language literature Indian literary awards Literary awards honoring indigenous people