Ma. Ilangkannan

Mayandiambalam Balakrishnan, who signs as Ma Ilangkannan, was born on 18 September 1938 in Singapore. His family took him at the age of two to Tamil Nadu, where his grandmother taught him to read Tamil; he returned in 1952 and attended a Tamil school, which his parents' frequent moves often interrupted. A storekeeper for the British army, then a typist in the translation service of the Ministry of Culture for thirty years, he has written short stories since 1966. The first Tamil writer to win the South East Asian Write Award, in 1982, he received the Cultural Medallion in 2005.

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• NovelFlowers at Dawnவைகறைப் பூக்கள்Ma. Ilangkannan · 1990Literature