Background
He was born on 1929 in Pudukkotttai, Tamil Nadu.
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Subramanian Krishnamoorthy
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Education
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.
Career
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from "His (or Her) Highness The Raja’s college", Pudukkottai,(under University of Madras) securing the first rank in the university in Sanskrit. He then obtained his M.A degree in English literature from Nagpur University.His mother-tongue is Tamil. He also knows Hindi, Bengali,English,Sanskrit,and German.He taught at a college for a few years.Then he joined the audit department of the Government of India at Madras in 1954.In 1955 he was transferred to Kolkata, where he has been living ever since, except for a 3-year spell in Delhi.He retired from the Indian Audits and Accounts Service in 1987.
He expired in Chennai on 07th September 2014 due to illness.
He has written Tamil short story collections namely "Nandriku oru vilai" & "Manitham" and two English short story collections namely "The Peasant and other stories" & "Modern Aesop Fables".
Achievements
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His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal. The biographies of Premchand and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize. He has translated more than 60 books from Bengali,Hindi,English into Tamil and from Tamil to Bengali."Rakta Bonya", his Bengali translation of Indra Partharathi’s Tamil novel ‘Kurudippunal’, has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi translation Prize. & Nikil Bengal Sahitya Samelana Prize.He has translated Tirukural & Silappatikaram in Bengali, which are the most important work of his career. He is closely associated with Bharathi Tamil sangam, Kolkata.
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Nationality
English
Awards
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His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal. The biographies of Premchand and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize. He has translated more than 60 books from Bengali,Hindi,English into Tamil and from Tamil to Bengali."Rakta Bonya", his Bengali translation of Indra Partharathi’s Tamil novel ‘Kurudippunal’, has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi translation Prize. & Nikil Bengal Sahitya Samelana Prize..He has translated Tirukural & Silappatikaram in Bengali, which are the most important work of his career. He is closely associated with Bharathi Tamil sangam, Kolkata.His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal. The biographies of Premchand and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize. He has translated more than 60 books from Bengali,Hindi,English into Tamil and from Tamil to Bengali."Rakta Bonya", his Bengali translation of Indra Partharathi’s Tamil novel ‘Kurudippunal’, has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi translation Prize. & Nikil Bengal Sahitya Samelana Prize..He has translated Tirukural & Silappatikaram in Bengali, which are the most important work of his career. He is closely associated with Bharathi Tamil sangam, Kolkata.