Thoppil Mohamed Meeran

Thoppil Mohamed Meeran
Born	26 September 1944 (1944-09-26) (age 67) Tengapattanam, Kanyakumari district, Tamilnadu
Residence	Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
Religion	Islam
Spouse	Jaleela Meeran
Children	Shameem Ahamed, Mirzad Ahamed

Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (born September 26, 1944) is an Indian author who writes in Tamil.

Meeran was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award^[1] in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali (The Reclining Chair). ^[2]He has also received the Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam Award, the Ilakkiya Chintanai Award, and the T N Govt. Award. He has published five novels and six short story collections.

1 Personal life
2 Works
3 Awards
4 References

Personal life

Mohamed Meeran is married to his wife, Jaleela. They have two children, Shameem Ahamed and Mirzad Ahamed.

Works

Novels

Oru Kadalora Kiramathin Kathai (1988, The Story of Sea Side Village)
Turaimugam (1991, Harbour)
Koonan Thoppu (1993, The Grove of a Hunchback)
Saivu Narkkali (1995, The Reclining Chair)

Short Story Collections

Anbuku Muthumai Illai
Thankarasu(1995)
Anathasainam Colony
Oru kutty thevin varipadam
Thoppil mohammed meeran kathaigal
Oru mamaramum konjam paravaigalum

Anthology

varekalin pechu

Translations

Husainul jamal (moin kutty vaither)
Theivathin kanne (NP Mohammed)
vaikom muhammad basheer valkai varalaru (mona graph) (MN karassery)
Thirukottiyur kurunavel (U.A Kader)

Awards

Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam
Ilakkiya Chintanai
Lilly Devasigamani
T N Govt. Award
Amuthan adigal Literary award
TN Murpokku Ezhuthalar Sangam
Sahitya Akademi Award

References

^ "Living Legend". The Hindu. 19 February 2005. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/02/19/stories/2005021900630100.htm. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
^ "His mission is to dispel myths". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 7 October 2005. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/10/07/stories/2005100700040300.htm.

Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil language

1955-1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) · Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) · C. Rajagopalachari (1958) · Mu. Varadarajan (1961) · Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) · Akilan (1963) · P. Sri Acharya (1965) · Ma. Po. Si. (1966) · K. V. Jagannathan (1967) · A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) · Bharatidasan (1969) · Ku. Alagirisami (1970) · Na. Parthasarathy (1971) · D. Jayakanthan (1972) · Rajam Krishnan (1973) · K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) · R. Dhandayudham (1975) ·

1976-2000	Indira Parthasarathy (1977) · Vallikannan (1978) · Thi.Janakiraman (1979) · Kannadasan (1980) · M. Ramalingam (1981) · B. S. Ramaiya (1982) · T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) · Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) · A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) · Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) · Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) · V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) · La Sa Ra (1989) · Su. Samuthiram (1990) · Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) · Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) · M. V. Venkatram (1993) · Ponneelan (1994) · Prapanchan (1995) · Ashoka Mitran (1996) · Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) · Sa. Kandasamy (1998) · S. Abdul Rahman (1999) · Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)

2001-present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) · Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) · Vairamuthu (2003) · Tamilanban (2004) · G. Thilakavathi (2005) · Mu. Metha (2006) · Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) · Puviarasu (2009) · Nanjil Nadan (2010) · Su. Venkatesan (2011) ·