Perumal Murugan's novel 'Kazhimugam' has been translated into English by Nandini Krishnan. The new book is titled 'Estuary' and it is published by Westland. Talking about the book, Murugan said in a ...

Prakash Mathema / Getty Images Say what you will about goats, but they rarely take offense. For Indian writer Perumal Murugan, that’s a welcome change. Five years ago, Murugan endured such violent ...

Coming from a family that boasts numerous elopements spanning generations, perhaps I am uniquely suited to talk about Perumal Murugan's Pyre. I have seen, first-hand, the shake-ups of loyalty, the ...

I picked up Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird (translated into English by Janani Kannan) when it was nominated for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023, an award the book has gone on to win. It ...

Perumal Murugan is one of the finest writers in the Tamil language Perumal Murugan, a leading Indian author who writes in Tamil, declared his writing "dead" in 2015 after he was harassed and attacked ...

It has been just over nine years since I first met Perumal Murugan, in January 2014. It so happened he was in town for the Chennai Book Fair, where his then-latest novel Pookkuzhi – which would be ...

Children’s literature has a long tradition of animal tales, including "Charlotte’s Web" and "The One and Only Ivan." But adult literature has for the most part turned up its nose at such stories.

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NEW DELHI: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan's debut novel, "Eru Veyyil" (1991) is set to be translated in English, publishers Penguin Random House India announced on Friday. The translation, "Rising Heat" ...

Perumal Murugan, a leading Indian author who writes in Tamil, declared his writing "dead" in 2015 after he was harassed and attacked by right-wing groups. But he has broken his self-imposed silence in ...