Appadurai Muttulingam
Appadurai Muttulingam is a [Sri Lankan Tamil language|Tamil (native)|Sri Lankan Tamil] author and essayist. His short stories in Tamil have received critical acclaim
and won awards in both India and Sri Lanka.
Biography
Muttulingam was born in the village of Kokkuvil in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to Appadurai and Rasamma. He was the fifth child in a family of seven. He obtained an undergraduate degree in the sciences from the University of Ceylon, Colombo in 1959. He began writing short stories in the 1960s, with his short story Akka winning a competition conducted by a Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper in 1961. This story was the title story in his first collection of short stories, Akka, published in 1964.After this early success, Muttulingam did not publish any stories for the next twenty years. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1965. He left Sri Lanka in 1972, and spent the next eighteen years working in various countries in Africa and Asia, including assignments with the World Bank and the United Nations. He has since published another collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and has edited a volume of Tamil translations of contemporary North American writing.
Muttulingam currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with his wife Kamalaranjini.
Works
Akka - short stories.Thikatasakkaram – short storiesVamsaviruththi – short storiesVadakku veethi – short storiesMaharajavin rail vandi – short storiesA.Muttulingam kathaikal - collected storiesAnge ippa enna neram – essaysInauspicious times - short storiesViyathalum Ilame - InterviewsKadikaram Amaithiyaaka Ennikkondirukkirathu - a collection of essaysPoomiyin Paathivayathu - essaysUnmaikalantha Naatkurippukal - NovelA.Muttulingam kathaikal - audiobookAmerikkakari - short storiesAmerikka Ulavaali - essaysOnrukkum Uthavathavan - essaysKuthiraikkaaran - short stories- Kolunthodu Pidipaen- short stories