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Place of Birth: Thenkalam, Tamil Nadu, India
About Daniel Selvaraj
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- Selvaraj (Tamil: ??.
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- He is the author of a number of novels, short stories, and plays in Tamil.
- He is a lawyer by profession and is involved in various Communist and left leaning writers' organisations like Democratic Writers Association India and the Progressive writers association of Tamil Nadu (TNPWA).
- He is currently in the executive committee member of the TNPWA..
- He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best Novel for 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled "Thol".
- He did the field work for Thol for a decade before writing it.
- The novel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil in 2012.
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