Vannadasan

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Vannadasan

Born	Siva Kalyana Sundaram (1946-08-22) 22 August 1946 (age 77) Tinnevelly, Madras Province, British India (now Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India)
Pen name	Vannadasan, Kalyanji
Occupation	Poet, novelist, short story writer
Language	Tamil
Nationality	Indian
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (2016) Vishnupuram Literary Award (2016)
Relatives	Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (father)

Vannadasan, aka Kalyanji is a Tamil writer from India. He was born as Siva Kalyana Sundaram in Tirunelveli in 1946, where he currently resides.. He is a son of Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran, a renowned Tamil writer. He writes short stories and non fiction articles under the pseudonym of Vannadhasan and poems under Kalyanji.^[1] He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 2016 for his short story collection Oru Siru Isai.^[2] He is also a recipient of Vishnupuram Literary Award, which he also won in 2016.
He is a retired bank employee.^{[citation needed]}

List of books

சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்புகள்: (Short stories)
kalaikka Mudiyaatha Oppanaigal - கலைக்க முடியாத ஒப்பனைகள்-1976
Thottathukku veliyilum sila pookkal - தோட்டத்துக்கு வெளியிலும் சில பூக்கள்-1978
Samaveli - சமவெளி-1983
Peyar Theriyamal oru paravai - பெயர் தெரியாமல் ஒரு பறவை-1985
Manusha Manusha - மனுஷா மனுஷா-1990
Kanivu - கனிவு-1992
Nadugai - நடுகை-1996
Uyara parathal - உயரப் பறத்தல்-1998
Krishnan Vaitha veedu - கிருஷ்ணன் வைத்த வீடு-2000
Oliyile Therivadhu - ஒளியிலே தெரிவது-2010
Oru Siru Isai - ஒரு சிறு இசை-2013
Naabi kamalam -நாபிக்கமலம் -2015

Some of his poems are translated by Jayanthasri Balakrishnan in English in her blog, though not published.^[3]

Articles

Agam Puram in Anandha Viktan.

References

^ Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. p. 4490. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
^ Kolappan, B (21 December 2016). "Vannadasan wins Sahitya Akademi award". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
^ "jayanthasri translations". Retrieved 20 April 2017.