Perumal Murugan is an author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written ten novels, five collections of short stories and five poetry anthologies. Apart from these he has published six compilations of essays on language and literature. Four of his books have been translated into English - Seasons of the Palm, One Part Woman, Current Shows and Pyre. The poetry he wrote during his exile from writing has also been translated in English and published as Songs of a Coward. He was honoured at the Indian Language Festival 2015 for his contributions to Indian writing. Murugan is a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College. Mohan Varma is a Hindi poet and translator. He has translated three of Perumal Murugan's novels, One Part Woman and its sequels, and his book of poetry, Songs of a Coward.
<p style="padding: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Written at a time of personal conflict and anguish, the verses in Ek Kapurush ke Geet by Perumal Murugan, sensitively and beautifully translated into Hindi by Mohan Varma, portray the poet's inner turbulence.</p><div><div aria-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden; position: relative; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 20px;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px;">In times of despair, the only refuge of a writer is to write, not for the world, but for himself. Therefore, in these poems, a man runs from words, a tormented soul laments the loss of a homeland, a king orders all humans to be skinned alive. The poems in this collection are angry yet tender, passionate yet scornful, haunting yet courageous, reflecting the myriad emotions the writer was going through at the time.</p></div><div class="a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header" style="position: absolute; bottom: 0px; width: 401.203px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; opacity: 1;"><a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-declarative" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":"Read less"}" data-csa-c-id="eyptr9-8f7anj-b9f87-rqng1m" style="color: rgb(0, 113, 133);"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse" style="background-image: none; background-size: 400px 900px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; margin-right: 0.385em; width: 7px; height: 7px; background-position: -94px -293px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); border-image: initial; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 0px; padding: 3px; opacity: 1; transform: rotate(-135deg); margin-top: -1px; margin-left: 2px;"></i></a></div></div>
