Perumal Murugan

Perumal Murugan (born 1966) is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written ten novels, five collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry. Five of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, Current Show, Poonachi or the Story of a Goat, One Part Woman and Pookkuzhi (Pyre) He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Namakkal.