Cinnamanur Subramaniam Chellappa ( ta, சி. சு. செல்லப்பா) (29 September 1912 – 18 December 1998) was a
Tamil
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* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
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writer, journalist and
Indian independence movement activist.
He belonged to the "Manikodi" literary movement along with
Pudhumaipithan
C. Viruthachalam (25 April 1906 – 30 June 1948), better known by the pseudonym Pudhumaipithan (also spelt as Pudumaipithan or Puthumaippiththan), was one of the most influential and revolutionary writers of Tamil fiction. His works were charac ...
,
Ku Pa Ra, Va. Ramasamy,
N. Pichamoorthi and A. N. Sivaraman. He also founded ''Ezhuthu'', a
literary magazine
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His novel ''Suthanthira Thagam'' won the
Sahitya Akademi Award for 2001.
Biography
Chellappa was born in Batlagundu in the year1912 to Subramanian, a government employee and nationalist. Chellappa did his schooling in
Tuticorin and obtained a degree in
economics. However, he failed to obtain a degree in English literature.
In the early years of his life, Chellappa was influenced by
Bhagat Singh but later he adopted
Mahatma Gandhi's creed of non-violence. Chellappa participated in the
Batlagundu
Batlagundu is a town in Nilakottai block in Dindigul district in the Madurai Region state of Tamil Nadu, India. The name Vetrilaikkundru (Betel leaf hill) later transformed and changed to Vathalagundu. The town is the major gateway to Kodaika ...
satyagraha and was arrested on 10 January 1941. He spent six months in jail and on his return, established a paper manufacturing industry. Chellappa began writing in 1934 when he published his first story ''Margazhi Malar''.
By the time of his death in 1998, Chellappa had written over 109 short stories and 50 articles.
Partial bibliography
Novels
*''Vaadivasal'' (1958)
*''Jeevanamsam''
*''Suthanthira Thagam''
Plays
*''Muraipenn''
Literary criticism
*''Ramaiyyavin sirukathai kalam''
*''Oothupathi pul''
*''Mayathachan''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chellappa, C. S.
1912 births
1998 deaths
Tamil writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil
Indian male short story writers
Indian independence activists from Tamil Nadu
Indian male novelists
Indian literary critics
20th-century Indian novelists
20th-century Indian short story writers
Novelists from Tamil Nadu
20th-century Indian male writers