NTR National Literary Award for Tamil writer Ashokamitran

Tamil writer Ashokamitran is the recipient of NTR’s 2012 National Literary Award recently announced. Read this article to get more information like date of presenting award, previous year recipients, jury members, N.T.Rama Rao, Lakshmi Parvati, works and awards won by Ashokamitran and many more!

The 6 NTR National literary Awards has been announced. The recipient of NTR's National Literary Award is the noted Tamil writer Ashokamitran, who is famous for his novel Thanneer and other works. The awards were announced by NTR Vignan Trust Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvati. Ashokamitran was selected for this award by considering the number of works he translated to to other languages and his relevance to Telugu.

The jury comprised litterateur Ketu Vishwanatha Reddy, writer Volga and professor N. Krupanandam of the University of Hyderabad selected Ashokamitran's name for the award. This award will be presented on 28 May 2012, the birth anniversary of NTR, popularly known as N.T.Rama Rao(Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao). In the previous years, NTR National Literary Award was presented to Kannada writer S.L. Bhyrappa, A. Somasundaram(Telugu), Sachidanandan(Malayalam), Mahasweta Devi and Gnanpith awardee C. Narayana Reddy. I think you all are interested to know more about Ashokamitran. So keep reading this article to know more about this year's recipient of NTR National Literary Award.

Ashokamitran: The winner of NTR National Literary Award

Ashokamitran was born in Secunderabad in AP and was very closest to the Telugu culture, people and language. After moving to Chennai, Ashokamitran became one of the most influential figures in Tamil literature. An interesting fact regarding this great writer is that his works includes not only short stories, but also novels and prose writings. One of the highly acclaimed novels of Ashokamitran is the Eighteenth Parallel. He is a troubled man puzzled by the deceptions and treacheries of men and time. But he never loses an opportunity to have a humorous take on them all and himself.

Nowadays this award winner is popular among the people in the name 'Ashokamitran'. But I don't know whether you all know his real name? Thyagarajan was his real name and after he became a full-time writer in 1966, he took up the pseudonym of 'Ashokamitran'. Some of his important works include Thanneer, Anbin Parisu, Manasarovar, My Years with Boss, Appavin Snegidhar and 18-Vadhu Atchakkodu respectively. If you get a chance to go through his works, you will be able to understand a fact that those works were characterized by satire and simplicity.