C S Lakshmi receives Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023
Updated On: 03 October, 2023 04:14 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The Tamil author has also been a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, one of India’s highest literary awards, for her novel Sivappu Kazhuthudan Oru Pachai Paravai (A Red-Necked Green Bird)
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C S Lakshmi is credited with transforming Tamil fiction, especially the short story genre, imaginatively experimenting with both form and language. Photo Courtesy: Tata Literature Live!
Pathbreaking author C S Lakshmi, (publishing fiction under her pseudonym Ambai) has been conferred the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023. She is one of India’s leading writers and academicians, forging a trailblazing path at a time when education and literary pursuits were not common for women. Her contribution to the field of Indian literature cannot be overstated. She is indeed credited with transforming Tamil fiction, especially the short story genre, imaginatively experimenting with both form and language.
As a leading raconteur of women’s stories, exploring their loves, relationships, quests and journeys, C S Lakshmi’s writing is both incisive and nuanced. Throughout the long span of her body of work, her writing has continued being fresh and original. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, one of India’s highest literary awards, for her novel Sivappu Kazhuthudan Oru Pachai Paravai (A Red-Necked Green Bird). Most of her work has been translated into English, one of the best known being Veetin Mulaiyil Oru Samayalarai which was translated by Lakshmi Holmström as `A Kitchen in the Corner of the House`. The book is a riveting composition in which the lives of three generations of women in a Rajasthani household are portrayed through the gaze of a Tamil daughter-in-law.
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