Interview: Perumal Murugan, author of ‘Fire Bird’, shortlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature

Arunava Sinha

· Nov 12, 2023 · 11:00 am

‘We are all subject to transplantation’: Perumal Murugan on why ‘Fire Bird’ resonates with readers

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Oct 11, 2023 · 11:30 am

Action against NewsClick is a ‘chilling attempt to silence brave voices’, say eminent citizens

Scroll Staff

· Oct 05, 2023 · 08:27 pm

‘Fire Bird’: Perumal Murugan could have shaped the novel’s characters with a more decisive force

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

· Sep 23, 2023 · 07:30 am

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

Perumal Murugan 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

Perumal Murugan Janani Kannan

· Aug 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

August reading: Recently published fiction that explore the ideas of home, belonging, and identity

Sayari Debnath

· Jul 30, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, Perumal Murugan is best read for craft, not themes

Nandini Krishnan

· Apr 08, 2023 · 08:30 am

Reader’s guide: The 2023 International Booker Prize longlist (including Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’)

Scroll Staff

· Mar 15, 2023 · 12:30 pm

BJP’s slum outreach campaign posters use Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s photo

Scroll Staff

· Nov 30, 2021 · 10:29 am

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

Perumal Murugan

· Nov 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Tamil film ‘Seththumaan’, a craving for pork exposes the fault lines of caste

Scroll Staff

· Feb 14, 2021 · 01:30 pm

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

Perumal Murugan

· Jan 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: TM Krishna, Perumal Murugan dedicate song to the protesting farmers of India

Scroll Staff

· Dec 09, 2020 · 12:36 pm

How to translate Perumal Murugan: Nandini Krishnan on her experience with ‘Estuary’

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Sep 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent

Yashasvi Arunkumar Vighnesh Hampapura

· Aug 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Jul 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

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

Perumal Murugan

· Jan 06, 2020 · 07:30 am