M. Ramalingam

M. Ramalingam (Tamil: மா. ராமலிங்கம், b. 1939), is a Tamil, literary critic, and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.

Biography

Ramalingam was born in Thiruthuraipoondi, Thanjavur District. He joined the Tamil Nadu Educational Service in 1964 and later became Professor and Head of the Tamil department at Government Arts College, Kumbakonam. He has written seven volumes of literary criticism. In 1981, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his critical work on modern Tamil prose Pudhiya Urai Nadai (lit. The New Prose).^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Sahitya Akademi Official website.
↑ An Album of Indian writers: issued on the occasion of Frankfurt World Book Fair. Sahitya Akademi. 1986.

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) D. Selvaraj (2012) Joe D'Cruz (2013) Poomani (2014)

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