The person who lives here after will just be an ordinary cheap editor Pe. Murugan’s release for Writer Perumal Murugan He thanks all the well-wishers for supporting him on social networking sites. Later Perumal Murugan will be relieved from all social networking site activities. Note: Dear Friends, the information below will remain as my status message for two days. He writes the status as Perumal Murugan, the person, talking about him the writer. On 12 January 2015, this statement appeared in English on Murugan’s Facebook page: His announcement came in the wake of violent protests among local groups in his home town, Namakkal in Tamil Nadu, against his 2010 novel Madhorubagan, which was published in Aniruddhan Vasudevan’s English translation as One Part Woman in 2014. An acclaimed voice of marginalised communities divided along caste lines in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Murugan wrote six novels – three of them translated into English – four collections of short stories, and four of poetry, before abruptly declaring himself dead as a writer. The 48-year-old Tamil language writer from India, Perumal Murugan, could never have imagined that he would have to draw an end to his literary career with a public announcement to the effect that the writer in him had died.
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