S. Krishnamoorthy or S. Krishnamurthy (Subramanian Krishnamoorthy, 1929 – 7 September 2014) has been writing short stories and articles in English and Tamil for over four decades. He was also the winner of prestigious
Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...
prize for translation.
Life
He was born on 1929 in Pudukkotttai,
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
. He obtained his B.A. from "H.H. The Raja’s college", Pudukkottai,(under
University of Madras
The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an a ...
) securing the first rank in the university in
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
. He then obtained his M.A. in English literature from
Nagpur University. His mother-tongue is Tamil. He also knows Hindi, Bengali, English, Sanskrit, and German. He taught at a college for a few years. Then he joined the audit department of the
Government of India
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at
Madras in 1954. In 1955 he was transferred to
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
, where he has been living ever since, except for a 3-year spell in
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...
. He retired from the
Indian Audits and Accounts Service in 1987.. He died in Chennai on 7 September 2014 due to illness.
Literary contributions
He has written Tamil short story collections namely "Nandriku oru vilai" & "Manitham" and two English short story collections namely "The Peasant and other stories" & "Modern Aesop Fables". Comprehensive Tamil biographies of
Kazi Nazrul Islam
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,
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee ( bn, শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 15 September 1876 or ৩১ শে ভাদ্র ১২৮৩ বঙ্গাব্দ ...
,
Premchand &
Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...
have also been penned by him.
Awards
His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal. The biographies of
Premchand and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize. He has translated more than 60 books from Bengali, Hindi, English into Tamil and from Tamil to Bengali."Rakta Bonya", his Bengali translation of Indra Partharathi's Tamil novel 'Kurudippunal', has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi translation Prize. & Nikil Bengal Sahitya Samelana Prize..He has translated
Tirukural &
Silappatikaram
''Cilappatikāram'' ( ta, சிலப்பதிகாரம் ml, ചിലപ്പതികാരം,IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, ''lit.'' "the Tale of an Anklet"), also referred to as ''Silappathikaram'' or ''Silappatikaram'', is the e ...
in Bengali, which are the most important work of his career.
He is closely associated with Bharathi Tamil sangam, Kolkata.
References
External links
Regional Language Books
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krishnamoorthy, Kolkata S.
1971 births
2014 deaths
Indian male short story writers
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni
Writers from Chennai
20th-century Indian short story writers
20th-century Indian male writers