Sa. Kandasamy

Sa. Kandasamy (23 July 1940 – 31 July 2020) was a novelist and documentary film-maker from Mayiladuthurai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Schooling in Koorainadu, Mayiladuthurai & Singarampillai High School, Villivakam, Chennai

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil for his novel, Vicharanai Commission in 1998. After studying at the Singaram Pillai School, he worked at the Chennai Port Trust and the Food Corporation of India.

Kandasamy later moved to Chennai, and joined a writers' Association writer Cre-A-Ramakrishnan, N.Krishnamoorthy, Ramu and artist K. M. Adimoolam. They briefly published a literary little magazine, Ka Sa Da Tha Pa Ra. In addition, Kandasamy also directed several other documentaries, primarily on popular Tamil writers and artists, including the Sculptor S.Dhanapal, and writers Jayakanthan and Ashokamitran.

Publications

Novels

Chaayavanam (1969) Avan Aanathu (1981) Tholaindhu Ponavargal (1984) Suryavamsam (1984) Erikkaraiyil (1986) Velaiyatravan (1987) Ettavadhu Kadal (1994) Visaranai Commission (1994) Karuppin Kural (1996) Maayaalokan (2011) Vancouver (2011) Neelavan (2011) Perum Mazhai Natkal (2012) Emmanaar Ivarkal (2015)

Awards and honors

(1995) Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship - for contributions to literature (1998) Sahitya Akademi Award - for his novel, Vicharanai Commission (2004) Receives Senior Fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2009) Kalaimamani Award — by the Government of Tamil Nadu.