B JeyamohanB. JEYAMOHAN (b. 1962), based in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, is a pre-eminent writer in modern Tamil literature. His most significant work yet is a twenty-six part romanfleuve called Venmurasu (The White Drum), a reimagination of the Mahabharata. Spanningmore than twenty-five thousand pages in print, it is among the longest literary works in the world. Apart from other landmark novels such as Vishnupuram (1997) and Kotravai (2005), his body of work includes more than three hundred short stories, many volumes of literary criticism, biographies, travelogues, introductory texts to Indian and Western literature as well as essays on heritage and philosophy. He has received many honours, including the Akilan Memorial Prize for his first novel, and the Katha Samman, the Sanskrit Samman and the Iyal Award (Canada). He can be found at https: //www.jeyamohan.in/ Read More Read Less