1. Perumal Murugan was born on 1966 and is an Indian writer, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil.
11 Facts About Perumal Murugan
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Perumal Murugan has written twelve novels, six collections of short stories, six anthologies of poetry and many non-fiction books.
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Perumal Murugan was born in 1966 to a family of farmers who had small land holdings near Thiruchengodu, a town in Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu.
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Perumal Murugan initially studied Tamil literature both as an undergraduate, in Erode and as a postgraduate in Coimbatore.
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Perumal Murugan has republished works of literature relating to the Kongu region.
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Perumal Murugan is the author of twelve novels, and six collections each of short stories and poems, as well as thirteen books of non-fiction relating to language and literature, in addition to editing several fiction and non-fiction anthologies.
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Perumal Murugan has written a memoir, Nizhal Mutrattu Ninaivugal.
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Perumal Murugan began his writing career by publishing several short stories in the Tamil journal Manavosai between 1988 and 1991.
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In June 2018, Perumal Murugan announced that he was working on a new novel, which examined middle-class families and their relationship with new technology.
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Perumal Murugan had further received grants from the Tata Foundation and India Foundation for the Arts headed by Anmol Vellani.
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In 2021, Perumal Murugan's picture was included in a political banner created by the Bharatiya Janata Party, in which he along with several other persons were depicted as residents of a local slum.