Modern Tamil literature has a partisan character and has developed a distinctive identity and aesthetics through it. Living Tamil is a readers’ movement that brings Tamil literary enthusiasts together to present the literary tradition to the world by honouring writers, nurturing new voices and creating spaces where literature can be read, discussed and remembered across generations.
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AnnualThe Living Tamil Lit Prize is the world’s largest literary prize selected and funded entirely by readers. It is also the largest literary prize awarded from India. The prize honours outstanding writers from across the world’s languages for lifetime achievement. The winner is chosen by a jury drawn from the global community of modern Tamil literary readers. The assessments and discussions of the shortlisted writers are made public. In this sense, the prize is also a reading movement.
Visit the Award page →The Living Tamil Literary Festival is organised to introduce Tamil literature to readers around the world, to create meaningful dialogue between leading figures of world literature and Tamil writers and to help the younger generation of Tamils living across twelve countries identify and engage with the finest traditions of modern Tamil literature. It is held every year in a different city around the world.
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WeeklySouthbound Review is an online weekly magazine run entirely by young people. Southbound is being launched primarily to bring this little-magazine tradition of modern literature to a wider audience. It is platform for presenting Tamil literature and other South Indian literatures carrying forward the already exisiting little magazine traditon of South India to the readers in India and around the world.
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Wandering, observational writing that sits apart from the reported sections.
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Interviews and profiles of writers whose work shapes contemporary literature.
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Critical essays and close readings of recent and significant books.
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