R. Chudamani

R. Chudamani
R. Chudamani (1931–2010) is a prolific and important twentieth-century Tamil writer, painter, who also wrote in English. She wrote over five hundred short stories, and several novellas, including Pinju Mukham (‘Tender Face’, 1959) and Iravuchchudar (‘Night Spark’, 1974), which was translated into English as Yamini (1996).
Virginia Woolf once described modernist fiction as “a thing you could ruffle with your breath, and a thing you could not dislodge with a team of horses”. That precisely captures R. Chudamani’...

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