Ka. Naa. Subramanyam
{{Short description|Indian writer and critic}}
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| birth_date = 31 January 1912
| birth_place = Valangaiman, British India
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| death_place = Madras
| nationality = Indian
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Ka. Naa. Subramanyam (31 January 1912 – 18 December 1988){{cite web|title=எழுத்துக் கவிஞர்கள்|url=http://thamizhstudio.com/kavignargal.htm|work=Thamizhstudio|accessdate=4 August 2010|language=Tamil|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928142204/http://www.thamizhstudio.com/kavignargal.htm|archive-date=28 September 2010|url-status=dead}} 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 Valangaiman in Thanjavur District. His first noted published work was the novel Poithevu (1946). He also wrote poems under the pseudonym Mayan. He published many literary journals like Ilakkiya vattam, Sooravali and Chandraodayam. He became a literary critic in the 1950s, publishing reviews first in the magazines Swadesamitran and Saraswathi. He was a friend and contemporary of fellow literary critic C. S. Chellappa with whom he was involved in a long literary feud. He was considered as a right-winger and Anti-Marxist by left-leaning Tamil writers. In 1965, he moved to New Delhi and started writing articles for English-language newspapers. For the next twenty years he lived in Delhi and moved back to Chennai only in 1985. In 1986, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary criticism Ilakkiyathukku oru Iyakkam (lit. A Movement for Literature). After his return to Chennai, he started writing for Tamil magazines like Kungumam, Mutharam, Dina mani Kathir and Thuglak. Pondicherry University made him an honorary professor. He died in 1988. The Government of Tamil Nadu nationalised his works in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm#tamil |title=Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124032426/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm |archivedate=2010-01-24 }} Sahitya Akademi Official website.{{cite book|last=Mohan|first=C|title=நடைவழிக் குறிப்புகள் .|date=16 July 2009|publisher= அகரம் வெளியீடு.|url=http://azhiyasudargal.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_1345.html}}{{cite web|title=Ka. Naa. Su Profile|url=http://www.tamilauthors.com/writers/india/Ka.Naa.Su.html|work=Tamil Authors.com|accessdate=5 August 2010}}{{cite encyclopedia|title= க.நா. சுப்ரமணியம்(1912-1988) |url=http://encyclopediatamilcriticism.com/subira.php|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Tamil criticism|publisher=University of Kerala|accessdate=5 August 2010|language=Tamil}}{{cite web|title=Literary feuds |url=http://www.andhimazhai.com/news/viewmore.php?id=2320 |work=Andhimazhai |accessdate=5 August 2010 |language=Tamil |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707141519/http://www.andhimazhai.com/news/viewmore.php?id=2320 |archivedate= 7 July 2011 }}{{cite web|title=க.நா.சு. உருவாக்கிய புரட்சி|url=http://www.uyirmmai.com/uyirosai/ContentDetails.aspx?cid=1606|work=Uyirmmai|accessdate=5 August 2010|language=Tamil|archive-date=7 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707214939/http://www.uyirmmai.com/Uyirosai/ContentDetails.aspx?cid=1606|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=நாட்டுடமையான 3 தமிழறிஞர் படைப்புகள்|url=https://tamil.oneindia.com/art-culture/essays/2006/books1.html|work=OneIndia|date=2 February 2006|accessdate=11 November 2018|language=Tamil}}
Awards and recognitions
- Sahitya Akademi Award for Ilakkiyathukku oru Iyakkam (Literary criticism) (1986)
- Government of Tamil Nadu award for the short story Kodhai Sirithaal
- Kumaran Asan award
Partial bibliography
=Novels=
- Sarmavin uyil
- Pasi
- ''Vaazhndavar kettal
- Sakthi vilasam
- Ezhu per
- Oru naal
- Puzhithi ther
- Maalthedi
- Nadutheru
- Gopuravaasal
- Poithevu
- Asurakanam
- Pithappoo
- Kothai Sirithall
=Short story collections=
- Manikoondu
- Adarangu
- Karugadha mottu
- Kannan En Thozhan
=Literary criticism=
- Vimarsana kalai
- Padithirukireergala
- Ulagathu sirandha novelgal
- Ilakkiya Visaaram
=Translations=
- Anbuvazhi
- Thabaal kaaran
- Madhaguru
- Nilavalam
- Vilangupannai (Animal Farm)
- Devamalar
- kaali
=English books=
References
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