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{{Infobox writer<br />
| name = R. S. Krishnasamy <br />
| image = <br />
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| caption = <br />
| birth_name = Rajavallipuram S. Krishnasamy<br />
| birth_date = {{birth-date|12 November 1920}}<br />
| birth_place = Rajavallipuram, India<br />
| parents = <br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|11|9|1920|11|12}}<br />
| death_place = <br />
| pseudonym = Vallikannan <br />
| known_for =<br />
| occupation = Journalist, writer, scholar<br />
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1978)<br />
| signature = Vallikannan signature.jpg<br />
}}<br />
'''Vallikannan''' ({{lang-ta|வல்லிக்கண்ணன்}}), is the pseudonym of '''R. S. Krishnasamy''' ({{lang-ta|ரா.சு. கிருஷ்ணசாமி}}; 12 November 1920 &ndash; 9 November 2006), a [[Tamil language|Tamil]], writer, journalist, critic, and translator from [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Krishnasamy was born in [[Rajavallipuram]] near [[Tirunelveli]]. He started writing at a very young age and had published twenty five books by the time he was 30. He worked for magazines like ''Cinema Ulagam'', ''Navasakthi'', ''Grama Oozhiyan'' and ''[[Hanuman]]''. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Naiyandi Bharathi" and "Koranathan". He wrote a total of 75 books in his life - novels, novellas, poetry collections, plays and essay anthologies.<br />
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In 1978, he was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Tamil language|Tamil]] for his critical work on modern Tamil poetry ''Pudukavithaiyin Thottramum Valarchiyum '' (lit. The birth and growth of Modern Tamil Poetry).<ref name="sahitya">[http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm#tamil Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124032426/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10320.htm#tamil |date=2010-01-24 }} [[Sahitya Akademi]] Official website.</ref> He died in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|title= Writer with many facets |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/11/24/stories/2006112400080300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207142440/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/11/24/stories/2006112400080300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2 June 2010|location=Chennai, India|date=24 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Vallikannan, a rare phenomenon |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/12/stories/2006111215330300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207131846/http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/12/stories/2006111215330300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2007|access-date=2 June 2010|location=Chennai, India|work= [[The Hindu]] |date=12 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Vallikannan Obituary|url=http://www.kalachuvadu.com/issue-84/anjali02.asp|work=Kalachuvadu|access-date=2 June 2010|language=ta}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
*''Bharathidasanin uvamai nayam'' (1946)<br />
*''Pudhukavidhayin Thorramum Valarchiyum'' (1977)<br />
*''Saraswathi Kalam''(1986)<br />
*''Bharathikkuppin Tamil Urai Nadai'' (1981)<br />
*''Thamizhil Siru Pathirikkaigal'' (1991)<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Sahitya Akademi Award For Tamil}}<br />
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[[Category:1920 births]]<br />
[[Category:2006 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian journalists]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil writers]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:People from Tirunelveli district]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Tamil people]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Journalists from Tamil Nadu]]</div>->Johnpacklambert