Ku. Alagirisami

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Ku. Azhagirisamy
Born
Azhagirisamy

(1923-09-23)23 September 1923
Idaicheval, Koilpatti Tamil Nadu
Died5 July 1970(1970-07-05) (aged 46)
OccupationJournalist, poet

Ku. Alagirisami or G. Alagirisami (Tamil: கு. அழகிரிசாமி, 23 June 1923– 28 March 1949) was a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Idaicheval village near Kovilpatti. He was a childhood friend of Ki. Rajanarayanan. He completed his SSLC and worked as a teacher and then as a clerk in the registrar office. He later became a journalist and wrote for Tamil publications like Tamil Mani, Sakthi and Prasanda Vikatan. His first short story Urakkam Kolluma was published in Ananda Bodhini in 1943.[1][2] He became a sub-editor at Sakthi in 1947. He was a friend and contemporary of Vallikannan, Pudumaipithan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan. His first short story collection - Ku. Alagirisamy kathaigal was published in 1952 with a foreword from Kalki Krishnamurthy. In 1953, he went to Malaysia to work in Tamil Nesan. He married Seethalakshmi in 1955. During 1960-65 he worked as a sub-editor in Navasakthi. He freelanced during 1965-70. He worked at Soviet Nadu for a few months until his death. In 1967, the Government of Tamil Nadu's Tamil development department awarded a prize for his play Kavichakravarthi (lit. Emperor among poets). He was noted for his short stories.[3] In 1970, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil posthumously for his short story collection Anbalippu.[4]

Partial bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • Doctor Anuradha
  • Theerada Vilayattu
  • Puthu veedu puthu ulagam
  • Vaazhkai padhai

Children's fiction[edit]

  • Moonru pillaigal
  • Kaalivaram

Translations[edit]

*Laurence Binyon's Akbar

Maxim Gorky's books
  • Leninudan sila naatkal
  • Americavilae
  • Yutham vendaam
  • Virodhi
  • Paniyavittal

Plays[edit]

  • Vanja Magal
  • Kavichakravarthi

Short story collections[edit]

  • Anbalippu
  • Sirikkavillai
  • Thavappayan
  • Varaprasadham
  • Kaviyum kaadhalum
  • Sevisaykka oruvan
  • Pudhiya roja
  • Thuravu
  • ku. Alagirisami siruhathiakal (complete collection of short stories, April 2011)

Essay collections[edit]

  • Ilakkiya then
  • Thamizh thandha kaviyinbam
  • Thamizh thandha kavichelvam
  • Naan kanda ezhuthalargal

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Venkat Swaminathan. "கு. அழகிரிசாமி". Thinnai. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Subramaniam, Ka. Na. (1978). Tamil short stories. Authors Guild of India Cooperative Society. p. 200.
  3. ↑ "சிறுகதைச் செம்மல் கு. அழகிரிசாமி". Tamil Nirubar (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ↑ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 24 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.

References[edit]

  • Mu. Paramasivam (2007). Alagirisamy Ilakkiya Thadam (in Tamil). Kavya.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Further reading[edit]

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