User:SAMAYAVEL

= SAMAYAVEL =

1. INTRODUCTION
SAMAYAVEL is an important senior living Poet of Tamil Language. He is the poet of Nineteen Eighties. His Poems are unique as a voice from the dry Karisal Area of Ramanathapuram and Tuticorin Districts of Tamil Nadu. Tamil aesthetics was revoked in his simple lines which is a pioneer attempt of Plain Poetry in Tamil. He has seven Poetry Collections in his credit. In addition he has published a volume of Experimental Short Stories. He has documented his village with a Poet's view in a book titled "Punaivum Ninaivum." Moreover he has written a lot of articles on contemporary Tamil Poetry and Fiction. Recently he has ventured Translation. He has published two volumes of Translated Poetry Collections.

2. LIFE HISTORY
He was born on 04.02.1957 at a village named vembur near Ettayapuram. This village lies in Tuticorin District of the state TAMIL NADU in India. He is the only one son of his parents. His father was a village artisan. He has completed his college studies up to graduate level. After that he travelled to Chennai in search of a job. He worked as a freelance journalist for many Tamil Magazines viz., Thuglak, Visitor Lens, Sujatha, Ashwini etc. Alongwith Visitor Ananth and Poet Vikramaathityan he was more interested in Investigative Journalism. But due to his recurring illness, as per the Doctors advice he took a regular Job in the erstwhile P & T Department as a Telegraph Assistant. Then he started to write Poems and his first Poetry Collection Kaatrin Paadal was published in 1987. Now he has retired from his job and living with his wife in Madurai. He has One Daughter and two sons.

(a) Poetry Collections

 * 1) Kaatrin Paadal (1987)
 * 2) Akaalam (1994)
 * 3) Some Poems from South (Anthology)
 * 4) Araikkanatthin Puthagam (2007)
 * 5) Minnip Purkalum Mithukkam Pazhangalum  (2010)
 * 6) Paravaikal Nirambiya Munniravu  (2014)
 * 7) Ippothu Niingal Enna saithu kondirukkireerkal? (2019)
 * 8) Samakaalam Ennum Nanju (2021)

(b) Short Story Collections


 * 1) Ini Naan Tiger Illai (2011)

(c) Non-Fiction


 * 1) Aan Pirathiyum Penn Pirathiyum (2017)
 * 2) Punaivum Ninaivum: Vetta Vezhiyil Oru Karisal Kiraamam (2018)

(d) Translation Works


 * 1) Anna Swir Poems (2018)
 * 2) Gloria Fuertes Poems  (2019)
 * 3) The Vegetarian, Korean Novel (2020)

4. AWARDS


 * 1) Puthumaippiththan Memorial Award of Vilakku Literary Forum (America) for the year 2016.
 * 2) Tamil Ilakkiya Virudhu of Tiruchi Samayapuram S.R.V.School for the year 2018.
 * 3) Nambikkai Virudhu of Ananda Vikatan for the year 2018 for the Translation of Anna Swir Poems in Tamil.

6. வெளி இணைப்புகள் 1) http://samayavel.blogspot.com/

2) To read some Poems of Samayavel in Tamil http://andhimazhai.com/news/view/-.html

3) http://www.launch.dinamani.com/tamilnadu/2018/jan/04/எழுத்தாளர்கள்-ராஜ்-கெளதமன்-சமயவேலுக்கு-விளக்கு-விருது-2838324.html

4) http://keetru.com/index.php/2014-03-08-04-35-27/2014-03-08-12-20-13/13320-2011-03-02-12-34-21

5) http://ilangokrishnanthewriter.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post.html

6) Read his famous Poem, "We had a Room" in Engish: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5NG98i4BhSIC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=samayavel&source=bl&ots=x08WoyjLaf&sig=ACfU3U1Nqj5zcnBW_mdY4RTJbg6UQVborQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiA9uzY2PHkAhVIbysKHc0CA_w4ChDoATAQegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=samayavel&f=false