S. Venkatesan

S Venkatesan is a tamil writer who wrote only one book. The author was successful in winning several awards for this book. The renowned writer belongs to the state of tamil nadu. His mother tongue is telegu. He did his schooling from muthu thevar mukkulathor higher secondary school in thiruparankundram which is located at a short distance from madurai. He took admission in mannar thirumalai naicker college in pasumalai in 1988 where he started pursuing his graduation in b.com.

Venkatesan completed his education in 1991, but during his college life of three years he won around 200 awards. He was one of the excellent orators and writers. Venkatesan published his only novel kavalkottam in 2008. The writer says that he spent ten years to complete this novel. The novel consists of 1048 pages and it talks about the 600 years of madurai’s history between the period of 1310 and 1920.

The book talks about the security system that prevailed in the madurai fort. All the women characters in this novel are strong characters. The author also talks about the construction of mullaperiyar dam in this novel. People of an imaginary village, thathanoor were responsible for the security of the village in this book. He received the sahitya akademi award for tamil in 2011 for this novel.

Aravaan is a film which is based on this novel. The book was also awarded with fiction award from tamil literacy garden, canada in 2010. Venkatesan is a part of the communist party of india (marxist) {cpm}. He took part in the tamil nadu legislative assembly elections from thirupparankundram constituency in 2006, but was not fortunate enough to win the elections.

He feels that his association with the party helped him in writing the novel. Venkatesan is also the general secretary of tamil nadu progressive writers and artists association. His wife’s name is kamala and the couple has two daughters- yazhini and tamizhini.

Venkatesan Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)