Ponneelan - Translated by: S. Nagarajan

Ponneelan (born 1940, Kanyakumari district) is a Tamil writer whose novel Pudhiya Dharisanangal (New Dharshans) won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 1994. Translated into English by S. Nagarajan and published by Sahitya Akademi in 2016, the work reflects Ponneelan's abiding commitment to democratic humanism and his grounding in Marxist thought and Tamil literary activism.