About Perumalmurugan
பெருமாள்முருகன்
Perumalmurugan was born on 15 October 1966 in Kootapalli, near Tiruchengode, in what is now Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu. He studied Tamil literature in Erode and Coimbatore, took an M.Phil. in Tamil studies at the University of Madras, and wrote his doctoral thesis on the work of the novelist R. Shanmugasundaram.
He has taught Tamil at government colleges in Namakkal, Attur and Chennai, and later became principal of the Government Arts College in Namakkal.
Prizes
- 2023JCB Prize for LiteratureFor Fire BirdWon
- 2023International Booker PrizeFor PyreLonglisted
- 2022Sahitya Akademi Translation PrizeFor Poonachi, to its translator N. Kalyan RamanWon
- 2022Fakir Mohan National Literary AwardWon
- 2020National Book Award for Translated LiteratureFor The Story of a GoatLonglisted
- 2018National Book Award for Translated LiteratureFor One Part WomanLonglisted
- Sahitya Akademi Translation PrizeFor One Part Woman, to its translator Aniruddhan VasudevanWon
- 2005Kiriyama PrizeFor Seasons of the PalmShortlisted