The pioneer Tamil short story writers in Lanka were Ilankayarkone, Vaithilingam and Sambanthan. Only when we know about the earlier pattern of short story writing can we then evaluate the contemporary short story writing in Lanka in Tamil language. The critical notes son the stories and the writers in the book serve resourceful for academics and critics of 21st century men and women. What it means in English is: Lankan Short Stories and Writers: a Multidisciplinary Approach. In Thamil, it’s called “Eelathuch Chiru Kathaikalum Aasiriyarkalum: Oru Pan Mukap Paarvai” in August this year. Meanwhile, recently Jeevanathi Publications printed my reviews of Lankan short story collections I read between 19. I hope to bring them in a further collection. May I say I was the pioneer in analyzing each of the story, whereas such literary criticism did not evolve in Tamil in Lanka.Įven after 1998, I continued to analyze Lankan Tamil short story collections I was able to read. Here I am speaking only about what I wrote in Tamil. I wrote my impressions both in Tamil and English. I wrote reviews analyzing each of the stories in the collections I read. Up till 1998 I have read only 72 of them. I started reading their collections only from 1962. I wonder whether they are available in the libraries too. Some of their collection of short stories are also not available. I can only speak about the anthologies I was able to read.

There are more than 500 short story writers in Lanka.

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