Translated fiction: Perumal Murugan’s new book of short stories travels across rural Tamil Nadu

An excerpt from ‘Sandalwood Soap and Other Stories’, by Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamily by Kavitha Muralidharan.

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Kavitha Muralidharan

· Sep 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm

In Perumal Murugan’s new novel, Muthu’s life is upturned when his father divides the family land

An excerpt from ‘Fire Bird’, by Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan.

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Janani Kannan

· Aug 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Marimuthu wants to get married, but why can’t he? Perumal Murugan’s new novel is about daughters

An excerpt from ‘Resolve’, by Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.

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· Nov 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Perumal Murugan: ‘How I, descended from a legacy of illiteracy, become a writer’

Murugan’s new book of short stories in translation, ‘Four Strokes of Luck’, will be published shortly.

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· Jan 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Estuary’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel to be set in a town and not a village

An excerpt from Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Estuary’, translated from the Tamil by Nandini Krishnan.

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· Jul 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Rising Heat’: Perumal Murugan’s first novel is now available to readers in an English translation

Published in 1991, the novel casts an artist’s eye on the price that rural communities have to pay for the urbanisation of their land.

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· Jul 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In Perumal Murugan’s ‘Poonachi’, a register of goats is eerily prescient about the NRC

In this excerpt from the Tamil novel translated by N Kalyan Raman, Poonachi the goat has to have ears pierced as a marker of identification.

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· Jan 06, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Amma’: Perumal Murugan’s new book in translation is all about his mother

The acclaimed writer takes a break from fiction to write a memoir.

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· Dec 13, 2019 · 06:30 am

One story, two endings: This is how Perumal Murugan’s dual sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ begin

The acclaimed novel left readers uncertain about the future of the couple at its centre, Ponna and Kali. These two sequels imagine different fates and ends.

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· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Poonachi’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel after he was attacked for ‘One Part Woman’

An excerpt from the new novel which was at the centre of an intense bidding war among publishers.

Perumal Murugan

· Feb 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

You’ve read Perumal Murugan the novelist. Here’s the short story writer

An excerpt from ‘The Goat Thief’, the first-ever anthology of short stories selected by the Tamil author for publication in English.

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· Nov 12, 2017 · 08:30 am

A ritual of rooftop meetings led to Perumal Murugan’s anthology of Tamil writing on caste

It wasn’t easy to persuade contributors, some of whom who feared retribution.

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· Oct 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm