Pushpa Thangadorai

Sri Venugopal (Tamil: ஸ்ரீ வேணுகோபால்) (1931 – 10 November 2013) was a Tamil language author of religious pilgrimage travelogues, who also wrote fiction under the name Pushpa Thangadorai (Tamil: புஷ்பா தங்கதுரை).^[1]

Works[]

Some of his most famous novels are:

En Peyar Kamala (1974–75)
Oru Sivappu Villaku Erikirathu (1976)
Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu (1976)

Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu was made into a film starring Kamal Haasan.

An excerpt of En Peyar Kamala was translated into English by and published as part of in 2008. Volume 2 of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction featured Highway 17, a 1980 comic written by Pushpa Thangadorai and illustrated by Jeyaraj, starring a motorcycle-riding female detective called Karate Kavitha.

Some of Pushpa Thangadorai's other short stories and novels are:

Neen Naan Nila,
Thenmerku Paruvam,
Naan Raamanalla,
Thiruvarangan Ula ^[2]

References[]

^ TNN (11 November 2013). "Tamil novelist Pushpa Thangadurai dead at 82". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
^ Chakravarthy, Pritham (2008). The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction. Chennai, India[pushpa-thangadurai_720_southdreamz.jpg]: Blaft Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-81-906056-0-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

External links[]

2005 Review of a Pushpa Thangadorai collection in The Hindu

[1] TNN (11 November 2013). "Tamil novelist Pushpa Thangadurai dead at 82". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.

[2] Chakravarthy, Pritham (2008). The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction. Chennai, India[pushpa-thangadurai_720_southdreamz.jpg]: Blaft Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-81-906056-0-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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