Na. Parthasarathy was a writer of Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 historical novels

Tamil historical novels

Tamil literature of South India has a long history spanning close to two millennia. Through most of its history, though, it was expressed in the form of poetry...

 from Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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, India

India

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. In 1971, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

 for Tamil for his novel Samudhaya Veedhi. He was also a journalist who worked in Kalki

Kalki (magazine)

Kalki is a Tamil magazine published from Chennai, Tamilnadu. The magazine was established by Kalki Krishnamurthy, a popular Tamil novelist and Indian freedom fighter. The magazine was very famous for its publication of historic novels by Kalki such as Ponniyin Selvan and Sivagamiyin Sabadham....

, Dina Mani Kadhir

Dina Mani

Dina Mani is daily Tamil newspaper printed and published from Chennai, Coimbatore, Vellore, Trichy, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Dharmapuri, Bangalore, and New Delhi in India. The newspaper was established in 1933 and owned by The New Indian Express Group.The first edition came in 1934 september 11...

and later ran a magazine called Deepam. He was known as Deepam Parthasarathy due to his magazine. He also published under various pen names like Theeran, Aravindan, Manivannan, Ponmudi, Valavan, Kadalazhagan, Ilampooranan and Sengulam Veerasinga Kavirayar.

Novels

• Saingala megangal
• Manipallavam
• Anmavin Ragangal
• Kurunchi Malar
• Ponvilangu
• Nisabda Sangeedham
• Samudhaya Veedhi
• Rani Mangammal
• Thulasi Maadam
• Pandi madevi
• Nithilavalli
• Vanjimaanagaram
• Sathiya Vellam
• Verri Muzhakkam
• Sundara Kanavugal
• moolakanal

External links

• Books of Na. Parathasarathy