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Mi. Pa. Somu (Tamil: மீ. ப. சோமு) is the pen name of Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (Tamil: மீ. ப. சோமசுந்தரம், b. 17 June 1921 - 15 January 1999) a Tamil journalist, poet, writer and musicologist from Tamil Nadu, India.[1]
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Biography
Somu was born in Meenakshipuram in Tirunelveli District. He studied Oriental Studies in Madras University and obtained the Vidwan certification awarded by it. He was a friend and contemporary of Pudhumaipithan. He won a short story competition conducted by the magazine Ananda Vikatan in 1938. He published his first collection of poems - Ilavenil - in 1946. It won a state award. He worked as the editor of the Tamil magazine Kalki during 1954-56. He was the founder-editor of the monthly magazine Nanban during 1958-60. He worked in All India Radio for over forty years and retired in 1981.[2] In 1962, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his travelogue Akkarai Cheemayil Arumadhangal.[3] He has written a large number of poems, short stories, novels, non fiction essays, travelogues, plays and research articles on Music. He also contributed several entries to the Tamil Encyclopedia (Kalaikalanjiyam). He died in 1999.[4]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Ilavenil
- Manaparavani
- Kudikattu Vezha Mugan Venba Malai
Short Stories
- Kelatha Ganam
- Udhaya Kumaari
- Manjal Roja
- Manai Mangalam
- Kallarai Mogini
- Thirupugazh Samiyar
Novels
- Ravichandrika
- Kadal Kanda Kanavu
- Nandavanam
- Vannila Ponnarasi
- Enthayum Thayum
Essays
- Karthikeyani
- Aindharuvi
- Pillayar Saatchi
References
- ^ Kay, Ernest (1972). International who's who in poetry. pp. 395. ISBN 9780900332197. http://books.google.com/books?id=KIViD5LMNlMC&q=mi+pa+somu+1921&dq=mi+pa+somu+1921&cd=2.
- ^ Lal, Mohan (2006). The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot), Volume 5. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4136. ISBN 9788126012213. http://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4136&lpg=PA4136.
- ^ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Sahitya Akademi Official website.
- ^ Dutt, Kartik Chandra (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 1291. ISBN 9788126008735. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=-W1OAAAAYAAJ&q=mi.+pa+somasundaram+1999&dq=mi.+pa+somasundaram+1999&hl=en&ei=k_vITN6BPYOsvgP2oO2VCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA.
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) ·
Categories:- 1921 births
- 1999 deaths
- Indian writers
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil
- Tamil writers
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