Aadhavan Sundaram

This article is about the Tamil writer. For the 2009 Tamil film starring Surya Sivakumar, see Aadhavan.

Aadhavan is the pseudonym of K.S. Sundaram, 21 March 1942 – 19 July 1987), a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.

Aadhavan
Born	K. S. Sundaram (1942-03-21)21 March 1942 Kallidaikurichi, Tinnevely District, Madras Province, British India (now Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India)
Died	19 July 1987(1987-07-19) (aged 45) Shringeri, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Author, Assistant Editor
Language	Tamil
Citizenship	Indian
Period	until 1987
Genre	Novels, Novellas, Short Stories
Subject	Children's fiction, Social Novels
Notable works	En Peyar Ramaseshan Kagidha Malargal Mudalil Iravu Varum
Spouse	Hema Sundaram
Children	2

Biography

Sundaram was born in Kallidaikurichi (near Ambasamudram in present-day Tirunelveli District) and obtained his education in Delhi. He worked briefly for Indian Railways. Later he joined the National Book Trust of India as an assistant editor. He married Hema in 1976. He started his literary career as a writer of stories for children in the magazine Kannan. He wrote under the pseudonym Aadhavan (lit. The Sun). His most noted work was the novel En peyar Ramaseshan (lit. My name is Ramaseshan), which was translated into Russian by Vitaliy Furnika and sold over a hundred thousand copies. In 1987, he drowned while swimming in a river at Shringeri. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil posthumously for his collection of short stories Mudalil iravu varum (lit. First comes the night).^[1][2][3][4]

Bibliography

Novels

• En Peyar Ramaseshan
• Kagitha Malargal
• Kanagathin Naduvae

Novellas

• Iravukku mun varuvadhu maalai
• Siragugal
• Meetchiyai thedi
• Ganapathi oru keezhmattathu oozhiyan
• Nadhiyum Malayum
• Penn, thozhi, thalaivi

Short story collections

• Singa Rajakumari
• Mudalil Iravu Varum
• Kanavu kumizhigal
• Kaal vali
• Oru arayil irandu naarkaligal
• Pudhumaipithanin dhrogam
• nilalgal

Plays

• Puzhudhiyil veenai