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Poet Puviyarasu demise
July 2 , 2026
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- Two-time Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Tamil poet Puviyarasu (birth name: S. Jegannathan) passed away at the age of 96.
- Born in 1931 at Lingavanayakanpudur near Udumalpet (Tiruppur district), he was one of the founders of the Vanampadi literary movement and served as a teacher for over 30 years.
- He authored 80+ books and translated works of William Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others into Tamil.
- He received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (2006) for Puratchikaran (translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam's poems) and the Sahitya Akademi Award (2009) for his poetry collection Kaiyoppam.
- Notable works include Kaiyoppam, Mukkoodal, Puratchikaran, and Meeral; Mukkoodal won the Tamil Nadu Government's Best Modern Poetry Book Award.
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