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Author Biography

Prof. S. Carlos, who is known in the Tamil literary circles by his pen name, Tamilavan, is a novelist, scholar and a critic. He charted a new trend in writing fiction in Tamil by introducing pictorial depiction of situations and characters in the 80s, thereby paving a path for later writers to follow the new potential of imagination. This kind of new method of fiction-writing is visible in all the six novels by him including the literary detective novel.

He was teaching comparative literature, folklore and culture in many Universities such as  Bangalore University, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland (for four years) and Dravidian University, Kuppam. He served as the Hon. Director of translation, Central Sahitya Akademi (Bangalore branch), for three years.

He gave lectures in Paris, Cracow (Poland), London, Germany, Singapore and Malaysia on Tamil  Literature. He holds memberships in many learned bodies such as MLA (U.S), Folklore Fellows of Finland etc. The awards he received include Best Translated Novel Award, from Karnataka Govt. (2017), Best Novel Award, Literary Garden, Canada, (2009), Best critic Award, from M.S. University. (2016)

He charted a new trend in writing fiction in Tamil by introducing pictorial depiction of situations and characters