Kovi. Manisekaran

Kove. Manisekaran (Tamil: கோவி. மணிசேகரன்) is a Tamil Scholar, film director, actor from Tamil Nadu, India. Kove.Manisekaran is only Tamil writer who swept the all of Literature awards in Tamil Nadu. who also the great musician,"the sangeetha booshanam" first class in first in rank at Annamalai University in the year, 1951

Biography

Kove.Manisekaran has been publishing for more than 50 years. He has written 8 plays, 29 short story collections, 30 social novels, 50 historical novels and 8 essays.^[1] He is most noted for his historical novels. In 1992, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his historical novel Kurrala Kurinji.^[2] He has also directed two Tamil and one Kannada film. He was an assistant to noted Tamil film director K. Balachandar for three years. His film Thennankeetru won the Tamil Nadu film fans association award and the Government of Karnataka's Neerikshe award.^[3]

Awards

Sahitya Academy Award for Tamil (1990)
S. P. Adithanar award from Dina Thanthi^[4]

Partial bibliography

Kurrala Kurunji
Nayakka Madevigal
Gangai Nachiyar
Malaya Maarudham
Therodum Veedhiyilae
Taj Mahal
Nithirai Megangal
Thirisooli
Varaaga Nadhikarayil
Kanchi Kathiravan
Kalayar Kovil Radham
Karru Veliyidai Kannamma
Gandhari
Kollipaavai
Koduthu sivandha kaigal
Kudavayil Kottam
Ilavarasi Mohanangi
Ajatha Sathru
Pon Veindha perumaal
Mani pallavam

more than 150 books

Filmography

Thennankeeru (made in Tamil and Kannada)
Yaagasalai

References

↑ "Kove Manisekaran Profile". Tamil Virtual University (in Tamil). Retrieved 8 June 2010.
↑ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived January 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Sahitya Akademi Official website.
↑ "Tamil Cinema History - Parts 773 and 774". Dina Malar (in Tamil). Retrieved 8 June 2010.
↑ Tributes paid to Adityanar

Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil language

1955-1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) C. Rajagopalachari (1958) Mu. Varadarajan (1961) Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) Akilan (1963) P. Sri Acharya (1965) Ma. Po. Si. (1966) K. V. Jagannathan (1967) A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) Bharatidasan (1969) Ku. Alagirisami (1970) Na. Parthasarathy (1971) D. Jayakanthan (1972) Rajam Krishnan (1973) K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) R. Dhandayudham (1975)

1976-2000	Indira Parthasarathy (1977) Vallikannan (1978) Thi. Janakiraman (1979) Kannadasan (1980) M. Ramalingam (1981) B. S. Ramaiya (1982) T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) La Sa Ra (1989) Su. Samuthiram (1990) Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) M. V. Venkatram (1993) Ponneelan (1994) Prapanchan (1995) Ashoka Mitran (1996) Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) Sa. Kandasamy (1998) S. Abdul Rahman (1999) Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)

2001-present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) Vairamuthu (2003) Tamilanban (2004) G. Thilakavathi (2005) Mu. Metha (2006) Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) Puviarasu (2009) Nanjil Nadan (2010) Su. Venkatesan (2011) D. Selvaraj (2012) Joe D'Cruz (2013) Poomani (2014)

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