List of 20th Century Tamil Authors and their literary works /Part II

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List of 20th Century Tamil Authors and their
literary works / Part II - Authors (cuntaresan -pratheepa)

Novels and short stories are important genre of the Tamil Literature. They started in the later part of the 19th Century. Initially for few decades, they were simply translations of western fiction . This was followed by translation and adoption of novels from Bengali, English and Marathi authors.

Beginning of 20th C, the situation changed dramatically with the emergence of lead Tamil writers like Kalki Krishnamurthi, Akilan, Sandilyan and many others. In the later half of 20th Century, novels finally established themselves as the dominant genre. Majority of the Tamil book publishers of Tamilnadu find publication of Tamil novels as the reliable source of revenue. Here we present a colleciton of novels from leading Tamil novelists of the 20th Century.

The list of 20th century authors of novels and their works is in tamil script (TSCII format).

, .

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,  

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 

, .

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 

 (. , 1934- )

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