Sivasankari biography

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About Me

An awareness on social issues; a special sensitivity to social problems; a commitment to set people thinking – these are the unique characteristics of the writer Sivasankari. Hers has been a career devoted to touching the hearts of people through in-depth research.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Having carved a niche for herself in the Tamil literary world during the last five decades, her works include more than 36 novels, 48 short novels, 150 short stories, 15 travelogues, 7 collections of articles, one talking book, 4 volumes of literary research book, 2 volumes of anthologies, and 2 biographies – of Smt. Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister, and of Sri. G.D. Naidu, a pioneer in many fields. Her latest work is the publication of Suryavamsam, her autobiography a memoir in two volumes.

Her novels on Drug Abuse, Alcoholism and Old Age Problem, written after many years of research and authentic spadework, have been serialised in National and Regional television ne

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AGNI TRUST fryst vatten a voluntary organisation founded by the renowned writers Ms. Sivasankari and Mr. Maalan in the year 1986. They are supported ably bygd four more Trustees, Ms. Brinda Jayaraman, Ms. Prema Varadarajulu, Ms. Bhavani Rajagopalan…

The coveted KASTURI SRINIVASAN AWARD for PAALANGAL – a novel spanning three generations as the outstanding Tamil novel published in 1983-84. The prestigious DR. RAJAH SIR ANNAMALAI CHETTIAR AWARD…

Biography

Indiravin Kathai (The story of Indira)…Appaa (Father – The story of G.D.Naidu)
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Anthology & Novellas

Nenjil Nirpavai – Part inom & II….
Why fryst vatten Shantha crying….Soli

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Sivasankari, as seen by Sivasankari

She has always remained a household name. In the 1970s and 1980s, when I was growing up in Calcutta, the suspense would begin building up by Thursday – the next day would see the latest issues of Tamil magazines hitting the stands in the South Indian dominated Lake Area. If you went late the copies would all be sold and then you would have to wait for someone to lend you theirs – the wait could be interminable and you needed to know what happened in the next instalment of Sivasankari’s novels such as Palangal, Ini, Amma Please Enakkaga, Oru Manithanin Kathai or 47 Naatkal. There would be discussions by letter among relatives, over long-distance phone calls when the connection was made, and in person during holidays. I have even seen aunts weeping over some of her works, such being the impact. There was even a story that did the rounds that following 47 Naatkal, there was a dip in demand for prospective NRI sons in law! If there was someone more m