Imayam (writer)

Imayam (born 1964, pen name of V.Annamalai) is a prominent Indian novelist in Tamil. Imayam’s first novel Koveru Kazhudhaigal, translated as Beasts of Burden by Lakshmi Holmstrom into English, was hailed as a landmark in Dalit fiction.

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• don t call me a dalit writer if a brahmin is not called a brahmin writer imayam
• Imayam speech at salem palam
• Translated into English
• Translated into Kannada
• Translated into Telugu
• Awards
• References

About his novel Koveru Kazhudaigal the writer Sundara Ramasamy wrote "There is no novel that equals this one in the last 100 years of Tamil writing." However Dalit intellectuals like Raj Gauthaman have criticized the novel for focusing only on shortcomings of Dalits and being the kind of novel that "upper"-castes praised.