CM Stalin allots 10 TNHB flats to Sahitya Akademi award winning authors
Chief Minister Stalin distributed the orders to A Selvarasu aka Kurinjivelan, P Baskaran aka Pavannan, S Mani aka Nirmalaya, P K Rajendran aka Indiran, Gowri Kirubanandan, K Poornachandran, T Marimuthu aka Yuma Vasuki, S Mohammed Yousuf aka ‘Colachel’ Yousuf, K V Rajashree and Kannaiyan Dakshinamurthy who won the Akademi awards for translating works to Tamil.
CM Stalin allots 10 TNHB flats to Sahitya Akademi award winning authors (X/ @CMOTamilnadu)
CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday distributed orders for allotment of Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) flats to 10 Sahitya Akademi-winning authors who won the prestigious award under the best-translated work category.
CM had announced on the 97th birth anniversary of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on June 3, 2021, that the State government would provide a “dream house” worth Rs 40 lakhs to authors from the State winning the Sahitya Akademi award for best-translated works. It was announced as an extension of the Kalaignarin Kanavu Illam scheme.
Awardee A Selvarasu won the prestigious award for translating Malayalam book “Vishakanni” in 1994. Pavannan won the award for his translation of the Kannada work “Paruvam” in 2004. Nirmalaya won the award in 2010 for the translation of the book “Sengol Illamal, Greedam illam”, while Indiran won the award for “Paravaigal Oruvelai Thoongi Poi Irukkalaam” in 2011. Gowri Kirubakaran won the award for the translation of Telugu work “Meetchi” in 2015. Poornachandran won the award for his 2016 translation of the English work “Poruppumikka Manithargal”. Yuma Vasuki won the award for translating “Kasakkin Ithikasam” in 2017. Yousuf won the Sahitya Akademi award for translating “Thirudan Maniyanpillai” from Malayalam in 2018. Jaishee won the award in 2019 for the Malayalam translation of “Nilam Poothu Malarntha Naal” in 2019. Kannaiyan Dakshinmurthy won it in 2023 for ‘Karungundram” which was translated to Tamil from English.
CM releases translated works of Ambedkar
The Chief Minister also released the Tamil translation of Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar’s first 10 volumes at the State secretariat. The books were translated into simple Tamil understandable by Poet ‘Senthalai’ N Gowthaman, professor V Arasu, professor M Valarmathi and former joint director of Directorate of Collegiate Education A Mathivanan in association with the State Tamil Development Department and New Century Book House. The project is aimed at taking Ambedkar’s writings to the younger generation. Some of the translated works of Ambedkar’s works include “Castes in India”, “Who is a Shudra”, and “Untouchables”.
State Tamil Development Department minister MP Saminathan, Chief Secretary N Muruganandam and other officials were also present at the event.