Imayam

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Produktbeschreibung

A man offering curses and prayers gifts and threats to his favourite deity before embarking upon a day of thieving... A woman in a packed bus desperate to get home before her clothes are soaked with menstrual blood but also determined to save a seat for a fellow woman... A loyal ageing party worker hoping t...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9789356294240
• ISBN-10: 9356294240
• Artikelnr.: 67676303

Autorenporträt

Imayam is the pen name of V. Annamalai, a schoolteacher and one of the foremost contemporary writers in Tamil. He has seven novels, six short-story collections and a novella to his credit. He has won several prestigious awards, including the Agni Akshara Award (1994), the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers' Association Award (1994), the Amudhan Adigal Literary Award (1998), the Thamizh Thendral Thiru.Vi.Ka. Award (2009), the Anantha Vikatan Award (2016), the Iyal Award for Lifetime Achievement (2018), The Hindu's Jayakanthan Award for Contemporary Tamil Literature (2018), and most recently, the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2020 for his novel Selladha Panam.