Ku. Alagirisami

Ku. Alagirisami or G. Alagirisami (Tamil: கு. அழகிரிசாமி, 23 June 1900 – 28 March 1949) was a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.

Ku. Azhagirisamy
Born
Azhagirisamy

(1923-09-23)23 September 1923
Idaicheval, Koilpatti Tamil Nadu
Died5 July 1970(1970-07-05) (aged 46)
OccupationJournalist, poet

Biography

He was born in Idaicheval village near Kovilpatti. He was a childhood friend of Ki. Rajanarayanan. He completed his SSLC and worked as a teacher and then as a clerk in the registrar office. He later became a journalist and wrote for Tamil publications like Tamil Mani, Sakthi and Prasanda Vikatan. His first short story Urakkam Kolluma was published in Ananda Bodhini in 1943.[1][2] He became a sub-editor at Sakthi in 1947. He was a friend and contemporary of Vallikannan, Pudumaipithan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan. His first short story collection - Ku. Alagirisamy kathaigal was published in 1952 with a foreword from Kalki Krishnamurthy. In 1953, he went to Malaysia to work in Tamil Nesan. He married Seethalakshmi in 1955. During 1960-65 he worked as a sub-editor in Navasakthi. He freelanced during 1965-70. He worked at Soviet Nadu for a few months until his death. In 1967, the Government of Tamil Nadu's Tamil development department awarded a prize for his play Kavichakravarthi (lit. Emperor among poets). He was noted for his short stories.[3] In 1970, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil posthumously for his short story collection Anbalippu.[4]

Partial bibliography

Novels
  • Doctor Anuradha
  • Theerada Vilayattu
  • Puthu veedu puthu ulagam
  • Vaazhkai padhai

Children's fiction
  • Moonru pillaigal
  • Kaalivaram

Translations

*Laurence Binyon's Akbar

Maxim Gorky's books
  • Leninudan sila naatkal
  • Americavilae
  • Yutham vendaam
  • Virodhi
  • Paniyavittal

Plays
  • Vanja Magal
  • Kavichakravarthi

Short story collections
  • Anbalippu
  • Sirikkavillai
  • Thavappayan
  • Varaprasadham
  • Kaviyum kaadhalum
  • Sevisaykka oruvan
  • Pudhiya roja
  • Thuravu
  • ku. Alagirisami siruhathiakal (complete collection of short stories, April 2011)

Essay collections
  • Ilakkiya then
  • Thamizh thandha kaviyinbam
  • Thamizh thandha kavichelvam
  • Naan kanda ezhuthalargal

Notes
  1. Venkat Swaminathan. "கு. அழகிரிசாமி". Thinnai. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  2. Subramaniam, Ka. Na. (1978). Tamil short stories. Authors Guild of India Cooperative Society. p. 200.
  3. "சிறுகதைச் செம்மல் கு. அழகிரிசாமி". Tamil Nirubar (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  4. Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 24 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
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References
  • Mu. Paramasivam (2007). Alagirisamy Ilakkiya Thadam (in Tamil). Kavya.

Further reading
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