Imayam receives Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award winner Imayam, and the cover of his book.

Sahitya Akademi Award winner Imayam, and the cover of his book. Source: SBS Tamil

Imayam, a prominent novelist, who calls himself a writer of the Dravidian movement and captures the stark realities of the caste system has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2020 for his novel Sellatha Panam.


A schoolteacher by profession, Imayam has written six novels, six short-story collections and a novella in the past 28 years since he published his first novel, Koveru Kazhuthaikal.  Iamayam (real name V. Annamalai) talks to Kulasegaram Sanchayan about his career and his writing style.


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