User talk:Venu62/List of Tamil authors

Famous contemporary writers
The Herald period:(1800-1920)


 * Maraimalai Adigal
 * Vallalaar Ramalinga Adigalaar
 * Parithimaar Kalaignar
 * Arumuga Naavalar
 * Meenaatchi Sundarampillai
 * Va.O.Chidambarampillai
 * Kavimani Desika Vinayagampillai
 * Subramanya Bharathi( original title -Paa Rathi, "veteran of verses", just like Maha Rathi Bhishmar )
 * Suddhaanantha Bharathi

Renaissance period:(1920-1960)


 * Bharathidasan
 * Mu. Varatharaasanaar
 * Ki. Aa. Pe. Viswanaatham
 * Ki. Vaa. Jagannaatham
 * Kalki Krishnamurthy
 * C.N.Annadurai
 * Raa. Pi. Sethupillai
 * Thiru. Vi. Kalyaanasundaram
 * Karunanithi
 * Pattukottai Azhagiri
 * Pattukottai Kalyaanasundaram
 * Akilan
 * Kannadasan

Classical period:(1960-1980)


 * SuRaTha
 * Maa.Po.Sivajnyaanam
 * Sundara Ramasamy
 * Ashoka Mitran
 * Koththamangalam Subbu
 * Krishnamani /  Manisastry
 * Mowni
 * Jayakanthan
 * Sandilyan
 * Pudhumaipithan
 * Indira Soundarajan
 * Indira Parthasarathi
 * Thi.Janakiraman

Free world period:(since 1980)


 * Erode Tamizhanban
 * Abdul Ragumaan
 * Vaali
 * Vairamuthu
 * Prof. Karmegha Konar
 * Laa.Sa. Ramamirutham
 * C. S. Lakshmi a.k.a Ambai
 * Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
 * Jayamohan
 * S. Ramakrishnan
 * Charuniveditha
 * Paa. Singaram
 * M. V. Venkatram
 * Karikkan Kunju
 * Si. Su. Chellappa
 * Paavannan
 * Thazhayasingam
 * A.Muthulingam
 * Vaasanthi
 * Kanimozhi
 * Thenkacchi Ko. Swaminaathan
 * Suki Sivam
 * Ve.Iraiyanbu, I.A.S.
 * Paa. Vijai

Commercial writers
Who write in tabloids and pocket novels for ordinary readers


 * Sujatha
 * Balakumaran
 * Pattukottai Prabhakar
 * Rajesh Kumar
 * Rajendra Kumar
 * Suba
 * Sivasankari
 * Anuradha Ramanan
 * Ramani Chandiran

Major poets of recent times

 * Vairamuththu
 * Vaali
 * Abdul Ragumaan
 * Erode Thamizhanban
 * Pramil a.k.a Dharmoo Sivaramoo
 * Pasuvayya a.k.a Sundara Ramasamy
 * Vannadasan a.k.a Kalyanji
 * Atmanam

Modern Tamil women poets

 * Kanimozhi
 * Malathi Maithri
 * Uma Maheshwari
 * Sugirtharani
 * Kutti Revathi
 * Salma

Most of these women poets are emerging modern poets but are under controversies. They are criticized harshly for writing on behind-screen themes using vulgar language. They argue that they speak for the suppressed women of their age. w:Category:Ayyavazhi

Literary magazines or siru pathirikaigal

 * Kalachuvadu
 * Theeranadhi
 * Padigal
 * Nigazh etc.,