R. Dhandayudham

R. Dhandayudham (Tamil: இரா. தண்டாயுதம், b. 1939 - d. ?)^[1] was a Tamil scholar, writer, critic and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.^[2]

Biography

Dhandyudham was a lecturer in the Indology department of University of Malaya, Malaysia. He has published a number of critical and research works on Tamil literature and a few works of fiction as well. His critical works are in the curriculum of Tamil Virtual University and Bharathidasan University. In 1975, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary criticism Tharkaala Tamil Illakkiyam (lit. Modern Tamil literature).^[3] A literary organisation (Doctor Dhandayudham Ilakkiya Peravai) has been established in his memory in Malaysia.

Partial bibliography

Non-fiction

Tharkaala Tamil Illakkiyam
Malaysia Tamil ilakkiya varalaaru
A study of the sociological novels in Tamil
Aalaya vazhipattil Tamil
A survey of modern Tamil literature,

Fiction

Malarum Malar
Poyyana nyayangal

References

Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil language

1955-1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) C. Rajagopalachari (1958) Mu. Varadarajan (1961) Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) Akilan (1963) P. Sri Acharya (1965) Ma. Po. Si. (1966) K. V. Jagannathan (1967) A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) Bharatidasan (1969) Ku. Alagirisami (1970) Na. Parthasarathy (1971) D. Jayakanthan (1972) Rajam Krishnan (1973) K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) R. Dhandayudham (1975)

1976-2000	Indira Parthasarathy (1977) Vallikannan (1978) Thi. Janakiraman (1979) Kannadasan (1980) M. Ramalingam (1981) B. S. Ramaiya (1982) T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) La Sa Ra (1989) Su. Samuthiram (1990) Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) M. V. Venkatram (1993) Ponneelan (1994) Prapanchan (1995) Ashoka Mitran (1996) Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) Sa. Kandasamy (1998) S. Abdul Rahman (1999) Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)

2001-present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) Vairamuthu (2003) Tamilanban (2004) G. Thilakavathi (2005) Mu. Metha (2006) Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) Puviarasu (2009) Nanjil Nadan (2010) Su. Venkatesan (2011) D. Selvaraj (2012) Joe D'Cruz (2013) Poomani (2014)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 237774265

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