S ThillainayagamS. THILLAINAYAGAM retired from M.S. University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu as Professor of English. His doctoral dissertation was on Q.D. Leavis's Fiction and the Reading Public. His papers presented in national and international literary conferences wee published as Feminist Literary Essays. He has edited Sundara Ramasamyin Thernthetutha Katturaigal for the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi and a textbook in Tamil ('The Status of Women in India') for the undergraduate students of M.S. University. His translations from Tamil to English are: A.K. Chettiar's Annal Adichuvattil, Kalaignar Karunanithi's Ponnar-Sankar, A.K. Perumal's A History of South Kumari, and Pichamurtyin Selected Short Stories. The last one was a Sahitya Akademi publication and won for him the Nalli-Thisai Ettum Award for the best translation of the year 2019. His forthcoming publication is a simple, precise meaning for the 1330 Thirukkural couplets of Thiruvalluvar and their translation in simple English. Read More Read Less