Kalaignar Porkizhi Award or Kalaignar Mu. Karunanidhi Porkizhi Award is an annual literature award bestowed for Tamil and other language writers at book fair organized by the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI) since 2008. Each award consists of 1 lakh rupee and the fund is managed by donation of 1 crore Rupee in 2007 by M. Karunanidhi.

Recipients

Tamil Writer

* Tamizhannal 2011 * Dr RM. Periakaruppan 2011

Poetry

S. Abdul Rahman Syed Abdul Rahman (9 November 1937 – 2 June 2017) was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India. He was known by the title ''Kavikko'' (lit. Emperor among poets). He was ex-chairman of Waqf board of Tamil Nadu. Biography Syed Abdul Rahman was born ...

2011 * Puviarasu 2008

Drama

* Prof S.Ramanujam 2011

Fiction

* C.S.Lakshmi ( Ambai )2011 *

Poomani Poomani (born 1947) is an Indian writer and novelist. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2014 in the List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Tamil, Tamil language category for his novel Agnaadi. Life and works Poomani was born in 1947 into ...

2014

Other Literature

Girish Karnad Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, Kannada writer, and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwr ...

, (Kannada) 2009 * Arjun Dangle (Marathi) 2011 * Prof. K. Chellappan (English) 2011

References

{{reflist Tamil-language literature Indian literary awards