Perumal Murugan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perumal Murugan (2018)

Perumal Murugan (born October 15, 1966 near Tiruchengode , Tamil Nadu ) is an Indian writer who wrote his works in Tamil . Six novels, four collections of stories and four volumes of poetry have been published under his name (as of summer 2018).

Life

Perumal Murugan is the son of a small farmer. He studied Tamil literature at colleges in Erode and Coimbatore , and finally received his doctorate from the University of Madras in 1988 . After receiving his doctorate, he worked for a long time as a professor of Tamil literature at the Government Arts College in Namakkal . In 1988 he began to publish short stories in a Tamil magazine. His first novel Eru Veyyil ("Rising Heat") was published in 1991. In 2010 his novel Maadhorubaagan ("Half a Woman") was published. This book sparked heated discussions. In 2015 he therefore had to leave Namakkal. First he was transferred to the Presidency College in Chennai , and then in the summer of 2016 he took up his current position as head of the Tamil department at the Government Arts College in Attur (near Salem ). In September 2017 he took part in the International Literature Festival in Berlin.

Controversies about the novel "Half a woman"

The novel Maadhorubaagan is about a childless couple in rural Tamil Nadu around the year 1946. Kaali and Poona have been married for many years, but so far neither folk medicine nor rituals have been able to fulfill their desire to have children: Now there seems to be only one way out: Am At the end of the annual temple festival in the nearby town, all social rules fall. Women can sleep with any man on the streets without social sanctions.

This novel caused a sensation in India after its publication in 2010. Radical Hindu and caste-based groups increasingly demanded violent measures against the author, who in their eyes broke moral barriers, spreads "lies" about local customs and blasphemously about Tiruchengode's patron deity, Ardhanarishvara , who is "half a woman." is “, had expressed. On July 5, 2016, the Madras High Court ruled that Perumal Murugan had the right to write such a book. The court rejected a petition calling for the novel to be banned.

Works in German

  • Half a woman. Novel. Translated from Tamil by Torsten Tschacher. Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2018. ISBN 978-3-945191-35-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perumal Murugan: Half a woman . Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, p. 155-162 .
  2. ↑ Perumal Murugan: Half a woman . Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, p. 155-162 .
  3. ↑ Everything is changing . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 11, 2017, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Perumal Murugan: Half a woman . Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, p. 155-162 .
  5. ↑ Perumal Murugan: Half a woman . Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, p. 155-162 .
personal data
SURNAME Murugan, Perumal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH near Tiruchengode , Tamil Nadu