“When My Own Writing is My Enemy”: Notes on Perumal Murugan and an Interview. Zecchini, L. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, December, 2023. Number: 31 Publisher: Association pour la Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud
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Perumal Murugan was born in 1966 into a family of farmers near Tiruchengodu, a temple town in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, which is part of the Kongu Nadu region. That is where much of his fiction is set, and where he continues to live today. Brought up on a farm where he looked after goats and cattle, and raised in a family from which he inherited a whole “legacy of illiteracy” (his words), nothing seemed to have predestined Murugan to become a writer. Yet it was in Chennai (erstwhil...
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	issn = {1960-6060},
	shorttitle = {“{When} {My} {Own} {Writing} is {My} {Enemy}”},
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	abstract = {Perumal Murugan was born in 1966 into a family of farmers near Tiruchengodu, a temple town in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, which is part of the Kongu Nadu region. That is where much of his fiction is set, and where he continues to live today. Brought up on a farm where he looked after goats and cattle, and raised in a family from which he inherited a whole “legacy of illiteracy” (his words), nothing seemed to have predestined Murugan to become a writer. Yet it was in Chennai (erstwhil...},
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	urldate = {2024-07-03},
	journal = {South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal},
	author = {Zecchini, Laetitia},
	month = dec,
	year = {2023},
	note = {Number: 31
Publisher: Association pour la Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud},
	keywords = {cultural studies, interview, literature, political studies, social studies},
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