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Texts and Authors - Complete Introduction
Texts and AuthorsMost Important Section in TNPSC Exams. Knowledge of Tamil & English literature, recent award winning books, major authors is essential.
📚 Literature - Genres
📊 இலக்கிய வகைப்பாடு - விரிவான பட்டியல்
| Type | Tamil name | English name | Special | examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📖 | Poetry | Poetry | Has yapu, seer, adi | Thirukkural, Kamparamayanam |
| 📚 | Novel | Novel | Long story, many chapters | Ponni's Selvan, guard |
| 📝 | short story | Short Story | Short story, one event | Jayakanthan short stories |
| 🎭 | Drama | Drama/Play | The dialogue is perfect for acting | Manimegalai, Indrajalam |
| ✍️ | Article | Essay | Description of concept | Essays by Tamil scholars |
| 👤 | Biography | Biography | One's life | Gandhi's truth test |
| 📜 | Copy | Epic | A heroic message, a long poem | Silapathikaram, Manimegalai |
| 🎨 | novelty | Fiction | Fantasy story | Parthiban's dream |
| 📰 | Not fiction | Non-Fiction | True events | History, science books |
| 🔬 | Scientific literature | Science Literature | Scientific information | Books of Abdul Kalam |
🏆 Major Literary Awards
🥇 Nobel Prize - Literature
- • World's highest literary award
- • Offered since 1901
- • India: Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
- • Presenter: Swedish Academy
📚 Gnan Peetha Award
- • India's highest literary award
- • Started in 1965
- • For Indian languages
- • Tamil: Akkittam, Jayakanthan
🎖️ Sahitya Akademi Award
- • Established in 1955
- • For 24 Indian languages
- • Awarded annually
- • Cash prize of ₹1 lakh
🌟 Booker Prize
- • Award for English Literature
- • Started in 1969
- • India: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai
- • £50,000 prize money
📖 Tamil Literature - Chronology
🏛️ Society literature
BC 300 - AD 300 | Eights, ten
📿 Storage period
AD 100-600 | Silapathikaram, Manimegalai
🙏 Devotional literature
AD 600-900 | Nayanmar, Alwar
🆕 Modern Literature
1900 to | Innovator, Jayakanthan
⚡ Shortcuts - to remember
5 great copies of Tamil
"C-ma-see-wa-ku"
- CLappathikaram - Ilangovadis
- MNimekalai - Seethalai Sathanar
- CVaka Chintamani - The Corrector
- WLaiyapati - Achirayar
- KuNdalakesi - Not held
Major Literary Awards
"No-na-sa-pu"
- NoDental - world class
- SunNabeeta - India (Highest)
- ChGithya Academy - Indian Languages
- ThuKar - English Literature
Literary Genres
"Ka-na-si-na-ka"
- KSeed - Poetry (Yappu)
- NaNovel (long story)
- CShort Story - Short Story
- NaDagam - Drama/Play
- KEssay - Essay
💡 Important points for exam
- ✅Nobel Prize- Tagore (1913) - First Indian
- ✅Jnan Peetha Award- India's highest literary award (1965)
- ✅5 large copies- Silapathikaram is the primary
- ✅Society literature- BC 300 - AD 300
- ✅Thirukkural- Thiruvalluvar, world public secret
- ✅Sahitya Academy- 1955, 24 languages
- ✅Booker Prize- English, Arundhati Roy (1997)
Tamil Literature - Major Texts & Authors
of Tamil literatureKey texts, detailed information about famous authors, their works and awards
📚 Sangam Literature - Octopus & Decatur
📊 Tamil Novels & Authors
| Thread name | Teacher | Type | publication | Special |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ponni's Selvan | Kalki Krishnamurthy | Historical novel | 1950-1954 | The best novel in Tamil |
| Parthiban's dream | Kalki Krishnamurthy | Historical novel | 1941-1946 | Pallavar history |
| Sivakami's Vow | Kalki Krishnamurthy | Historical novel | 1944-1946 | Pallavar period |
| the policeman | Akilan | Social novel | 1960 | Popular novel |
| Sacrifice land | Kalki Krishnamurthy | A freedom struggle novel | 1938-1939 | Liberation Movement |
| Kurunji flower | Na. Parthasarathi | Social novel | 1985 | Jnan Peetha Award |
| He who does not speak speaks | Jayakanthan | Social novel | 1970 | Gnan Peetha Award Winner |
| white elephant | Akilan | Social novel | 1945 | A famous work |
| Heartache | Innovator | A collection of short stories | 1943 | Tamil short story pioneer |
| Vada Malli | Rajam Krishnan | Novel | 1972 | Sahitya Akademi Award |
🏆 Tamil writers who won the Jnanapeetha Award
🥇 Akkidham (1970)
- • First Tamil Jnana Peetha Award
- • Contemplative poet
- • Top note: Vanilla
- • Philosophical poems
📚 Poet Kannadasan (No)
- • The poet king
- • 5000+ songs
- • Movie songs
- • Sahitya Akademi Award
✍️ Jayakanthan (2002)
- • Second Tamil
- • Social reformer
- • 40+ novels
- • Sahitya Akademi Award
📖 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel)
- • First Indian Nobel Prize
- • Gitanjali (1913)
- • Bengali poet
- • Author of Indian National Anthem
⚡ Shortcuts - to remember
Octagon (8 books)
"Na-ku-i-pa-pa-ka-a-pu"
- NTerni
- KuRedemption
- IOne hundred
- pRefresh
- pRebate
- KAmount of li
- ANine hundred
- ThuFour hundred
Kalki Novels (Important)
"Bo-ba-si-di"
- BNni's Selvan (Cholar)
- PaDream of Rthiban (Pallavar)
- CThe Vow of Vakami (Pallavar)
- TheYagabhoomi (liberation)
Gnan Peeda Award - Tamil
"Akkitham - Jayakanthan"
- I am angry- 1970 (first)
- Jayakanthan- 2002 (Second)
- Total:2 Tamils
- India's highest literary award
💡 Important points for exam
- ✅The sum of eight- 8 Sangha Literatures (Small Literature)
- ✅ten- 10 long songs (Perungapiyam)
- ✅Ponni's Selvan- Kalki (Tamil's best novel)
- ✅I am angry- First Tamil Jnanapeetha Award (1970)
- ✅Jayakanthan - இரண்டாவது ஞானபீட விருது (2002)
- ✅Innovator - தமிழ் சிறுகதை முன்னோடி
- ✅Kannadasan- Poet King, 5000+ songs
Indian & World Literature - Major Writers
Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize winning authors of Indian and world literature and their books
🌍 Nobel Prize winning authors
📚 World Classic Writers
| Writer | Country | Famous book | Period | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | England | Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo-Juliet | 1564-1616 | Drama, poetry |
| Leo Tolstoy | Russia | War and Peace, Anna Karenina | 1828-1910 | Novel |
| Charles Dickens | England | Oliver Twist, Great Expectations | 1812-1870 | Novel |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Colombia | A Hundred Years of Solitude | 1927-2014 | Novel (Nobel 1982) |
| Jane Austen | England | Pride and Prejudice, Emma | 1775-1817 | Novel |
| Ernest Hemingway | America | The Old Man and the Sea | 1899-1961 | Novel (Nobel 1954) |
| Mark Twain | America | Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn | 1835-1910 | Novel, comedy |
| George Orwell | England | 1984, Animal Pharm | 1903-1950 | Dystopian novel |
| J.K. Rowling | England | Harry Potter series | 1965 - (Present) | Fantasy novel |
| Haruki Murakami | Japan | Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore | 1949 - (Present) | A modern novel |
🏆 Booker Prize Winners (Indians)
📖 Salman Rushdie (1981)
- •Midnight's Children
- • Background of Indian independence
- • Booker of Bookers (1993)
- • Mystical realist style
🌟 Arundhati Roy (1997)
- •The God of Small Things
- • Kerala village life
- • First Indian woman winner
- • Social justice theme
✍️ Kiran Desai (2006)
- •The Inheritance of Loss
- • Loss of life
- • Himalayan backdrop
- • Immigration theme
📚 Arvind Adika (2008)
- •The White Tiger
- • Dark side of India
- • Criticism of class oppression
- • Entrepreneur story
⚡ Shortcuts - to remember
Indian Nobel Prize Winners
"Ta-nai-che" (3 people)
- ThaGur - 1913 (Literature)
- KnifePaul - 2001 (Literary)
- Secof - 1998 (Economics)
Note:Amartya Sen Economic Nobel
Booker Prize - Indians
"Sal-Aru-Ki-Ara" (4 people)
- SalMaan Rushdie - 1981
- AruNdathi Roy - 1997
- KRan Desai - 2006
- ArVind Adika - 2008
World Classics - Major Authors
"She-dall-dick-mark"
- ShayXperia - Hamlet
- DollStai - War and Peace
- DickGuns - Oliver Twist
- MarkWes - 100 Years of Solitude
💡 Important points for exam
- ✅Rabindranath Tagore- India's first Nobel (1913)
- ✅Geetanjali- Tagore's famous collection of poems
- ✅Arundhati Roy- First Indian Woman Booker (1997)
- ✅Salman Rushdie- Midnight's Children (Booker 1981)
- ✅RK Narayanan- Malgudi Days (Indian Classic)
- ✅Munshi Premchand- Father of Hindi Literature (Kodan)
- ✅William Shakespeare- Hamlet, Macbeth (world classic)
Recent award-winning books (2020-2024)
Booker Prize, Jnan Peetha Award, Sahitya Akademi AwardRecent books and authors who have won global and Indian awards like
🏆 Booker Prize Winners (2020-2024)
📚 2023-2024 Important Indian Texts
| Thread name | Teacher | Language | Award | Special |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomb of Sand | Geetanjali Sri | Hindi (Translation) | Booker 2022 | First Hindi Booker |
| Estamadu | Perumal Murugan | Tamil | Sahitya Academy 2021 | A famous Tamil novelist |
| Cedal | center | Tamil | Sahitya Academy 2022 | Dalit Literature |
| Western Lane | China Galania | English | Booker shortlist 2023 | Indian Origin (UK) |
| Firefly Memories | Shoba Rao | English | Dhan Gopal Mukerji 2023 | Children's literature |
| All the Lives We Never Lived | Anuradha Roy | English | DSC Prize shortlist | Historical novel |
| explosion | Co. Gnanasundari | Tamil | Sahitya Academy 2020 | A collection of short stories |
| The Dictionary of Lost Words | Pip Williams | English | Various awards | Historical novel |
| Kaikeyi | Vaishnavi Patel | English | Goodreads Choice 2022 | Mythical reinterpretation |
| Badagan | Damodaran believed | Malayalam | Jnan Peetha 2022 | Famous Malayalam writer |
🌐 World Literature - Latest Trends
📖 Nobel Prize for Literature 2023
- •John Fosse(Norway)
- • Drama & Novels
- • Modern Norwegian Literature
- • Main text: Septology
🏆 Booker 2024 (shortlist)
- •Samantha Harvey- Orbital
- •Percival Everett- James
- •Rachel Kushner- Creation Lake
- •Charlotte Wood- Stone Yard
✍️ Women Writers (2023-24)
- •Margaret Atwood- The Testaments
- •Madeleine Miller- Circe, The Song of Achilles
- •Colin Hoover- It Ends with Us
- • சமகால பெண் கதைகள்
🔥 Popular Categories (2023-24)
- •Fantasy- Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros)
- •Mystery- The Thursday Murder Club
- •History- Demon Copperhead
- •Science fiction- Project Hail Mary
⚡ Shortcuts - to remember
Booker Prize 2020-2023
"Duck-day-she-ball" (4 years)
- 2020 -DougLucy Stewart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021 -DayMann Kalkat (The Promise)
- 2022 -ShayHan Karunathilak (Seven Moons)
- 2023 -MilkLynch (Prophet Song)
Tamil Sahitya Academy 2020-2022
"Nha-be-e" (3 authors)
- 2020 -SunNasundari (Explosion)
- 2021 -BRumal Murugan (Estamadu)
- 2022 -ecenter (sedal)
Latest Indian Booker
"Geetanjali Sri - First Hindi"
- Tomb of Sand(2022)
- International Booker Prize
- Translation from Hindi
- First Indian language book
💡 Important points for exam
- ✅Geetanjali Sri- First Indian Language Booker (2022, Hindi)
- ✅Perumal Murugan- Sahitya Academy 2021 (Estamadu)
- ✅center- Sahitya Academy 2022 (Sedal)
- ✅Shehan Karunathilak- Booker 2022 (Sri Lanka, Seven Moons)
- ✅Paul Lynch- Booker 2023 (Prophet Song, Ireland)
- ✅John Fosse- Nobel Literature 2023 (Norway)
- ✅Damodaran believed- Jnan Peetha 2022 (Malayalam)
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