M. Ramalingam

M. Ramalingam (Tamil: மா. ராமலிங்கம், b. 1939), is a Tamil, literary critic, and translator from Tamil Nadu, India.

Biography

Ramalingam was born in Thiruthuraipoondi, Thanjavur District. He joined the Tamil Nadu Educational Service in 1964 and later became Professor and Head of the Tamil department at Government Arts College, Kumbakonam. He has written seven volumes of literary criticism. In 1981, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his critical work on modern Tamil prose Pudhiya Urai Nadai (lit. The New Prose).[1][2]

References
  1. Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
  2. An Album of Indian writers: issued on the occasion of Frankfurt World Book Fair. Sahitya Akademi. 1986.



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