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Tamilar Veeram: ( Won the First Ever Sahitya Akademi Award )

Tamilar Veeram: ( Won the First Ever Sahitya Akademi Award )

Sethu Pillai, R. P.

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1976259762
ISBN13: 9781976259760
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 10 2017
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Tamil
R. P. Sethu Pillai (1896-1961), was a Tamil scholar, writer and professor of Tamil at the University of Madras. In 1955, he won the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his series of essays titled Tamil inbam. In 1957, he was awarded a D. Litt degree (honoris causa). Sethu pillai was a scholar of Tamil and wrote more than twenty five books. Among his notable works is his biography of Bishop Robert Caldwell titled Caldwell Aiyar Sarithram. He was popularly called Sollin Selvar (lit. the child of the word) for his proficiency in Tamil. He was a member of the Tamil advisory board for the Sahitya Akademi since its inception in 1954. He was involved in the creation of the Tamil encyclopaedia and the last volume of the Tamil lexicon. He also wrote a number of books and articles in English. The most noted among them is his edition of Francis Whyte Ellis' commentary of Tirukkural and Dravidian comparative vocabulary. Sethu pillai died in 1961.In 2009, Sethu Pillai's works were nationalised by the Government of Tamil Nadu.He was the one to give the title 'Silambu Selvar' to Ma. Po. Si.(M.P.Sivagnanam) praising the immense knowledge he had in the field of Silappatikaram epic.

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