Subramanian Krishnamoorthy

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'''S. Krishnamoorthy''' or '''S. Krishnamurthy''' (Subramanian Krishnamoorthy, 1929 – 7 September 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jeyamohan.in/61342|title = அஞ்சலி : சு கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி | எழுத்தாளர் ஜெயமோகன்| date=4 August 2020 }}</ref> has been writing short stories and articles in English and Tamil for over four decades. He was also the winner of prestigious [[Sahitya Akademi]] prize for translation.

==Life == He was born on 1929 in Pudukkotttai, [[Tamil Nadu]]. He obtained his B.A. from "H.H. The Raja’s college", Pudukkottai,(under [[University of Madras]]) securing the first rank in the university in [[Sanskrit]]. He then obtained his M.A. in English literature from [[Nagpur University]]. His mother-tongue is Tamil. He also knows Hindi, Bengali, English, Sanskrit, and German. He taught at a college for a few years. Then he joined the audit department of the [[Government of India]] at [[Madras]] in 1954. In 1955 he was transferred to [[Kolkata]], where he has been living ever since, except for a 3-year spell in [[Delhi]]. He retired from the [[Indian Audits and Accounts Service]] in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}. He died in Chennai on 7 September 2014 due to illness.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

==Literary contributions== He has written Tamil short story collections namely "Nandriku oru vilai" & "Manitham" and two English short story collections namely "The Peasant and other stories" & "Modern Aesop Fables". Comprehensive Tamil biographies of [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]], [[Premchand]] & [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]] have also been penned by him.<ref name="test">{{cite news|title=Track record of a translator|website=[[The Hindu]]|date=December 2011 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article2677692.ece}}</ref>

==Awards== His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal. The biographies of [[Premchand]] and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize. He has translated more than 60 books from Bengali, Hindi, English into Tamil and from Tamil to Bengali."Rakta Bonya", his Bengali translation of Indra Partharathi's Tamil novel 'Kurudippunal', has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi translation Prize.<ref>{{cite web|title=Akademi Translation Awards Information|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/searchAwards.jsp}}</ref> & Nikil Bengal Sahitya Samelana Prize..He has translated [[Tirukural]] & [[Silappatikaram]] in Bengali, which are the most important work of his career.<ref name="test" /> He is closely associated with Bharathi Tamil sangam, Kolkata.<ref>{{cite book|last=Krishnamoorthy|first=Subramanian|title=Naan kadantu vantha pathai|year=2009|publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam|isbn=978-93-8032-500-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Novel on class struggle Information|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/03/27/stories/2007032700241500.htm}}</ref>

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==External links== #[http://164.100.47.132/pdfload/MyFolder%5Creg.oct.pdf Regional Language Books] #[https://gkrishnaraj.blogspot.com/2010/12/asiatic-society-of-mumbai-literary-club.html The Asiatic Society of Mumbai Literary Club's three-day Tagore festival]

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