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Ki Rajanarayanan | கி.ரா. பற்றி அறியாத10 விஷயங்கள்! | Karisal Literature | Gopallapurathu Makkal

Veteran Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi winner Ki Rajanarayanan popularly known as Ki Ra passed away at Puducherry on Monday due to age-related illness. He was 98.

Ki Ra was born in Idaiseval village near Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu in 1923. He dropped out of school after the seventh standard. He moved to Puducherry after being appointed as a professor of folklore at Puducherry university in the 1980s.

His first short story ‘Maayaman’ was published in 1958 and was an instant hit among the readers. Since then, Ki Ra had an expansive literary career. He was widely recognized for the depiction of the people and culture of ‘Karisal bhoomi’– the hot and dry land of southern Tamil Nadu.

Known as the pioneer of ‘Karisal Literature’, Ki Ra won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1991 for his novel ‘Gopallapurathu Makkal’

CREDITS:
Script:C.Murugadoss
Editing: Vel Murugan
Voice Over: Gunavathy

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