1. Subramani was born on 20 June 1943 and is a Fijian author, essayist, and literary critic.
19 Facts About Subramani
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Subramani writes fiction and non-fiction in English and Fiji Hindi, and has combined writing with university administration.
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Subramani has served in all three universities in Fiji and has been a Dean, Pro Vice Chancellor and Acting Vice Chancellor.
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Subramani has established himself as a novelist, short story writer, essayist and a literary critic.
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Subramani has written on education, language, the university, cinema and civil society.
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Subramani was a leading figure in the literary renaissance that happened in the South Pacific in the 1970's when the small island states were becoming politically independent.
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Subramani worked with writers like Albert Wendt, Marjorie Crocombe, Konai Thaman, Satendra Nandan, Epeli Hau'ofa and Raymond Pillai, editing the literary journal Mana, organizing workshops for young writers, and teaching and critiquing literary works.
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Subramani teaches literature and many of his students have become well-known writers.
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Subramani secured a scholarship to study in New Zealand and graduated from the University of Canterbury with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English in the year 1966.
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Subramani taught at high school and was a senior education officer in charge of the English curriculum with the Fiji's Ministry of Education, both for a short period.
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Subramani was a Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University, and a post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Subramani has been a visiting writer and professor to many countries, including India and Japan.
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Subramani has gradually evolved as a creative writer from his childhood.
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Subramani's father had come to Fiji as an indentured worker.
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Subramani was a voracious reader from childhood which resulted into his dream to become a writer.
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Meanwhile Subramani continued to write his Fijian short stories, collected together in an anthology called The Fantasy Eaters.
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The Fiji Indian reader comes to the same conclusion when reading Fiji Maa and Subramani's earlier, founding novel, Dauka Puraan.
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Unlike Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Subramani has not turned away from English, nor does he insist that Indo-Fijian writers should write in Fiji Hindi.
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The epistemological task that Subramani defines for Pacific scholars is to create new cultural paths from competing systems of knowledge in the region by drawing more from vernacular energies.