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Place of Birth: Nagore, Tamil Nadu, India
About Charu Nivedita
- Charu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India.
- There is an invisible ban on his writings in the Tamil literary milieu, whereas he is widely translated into Malayalam in nearby Kerala.
- Since his writings are transgressive in nature, he is branded as a pornographic writer and disliked by many.
- For a longtime he was writing clandestinely under the pseudonym ‘Muniyandi’.
- He was born and raised in a slum until the age of eighteen, worked in the government services and survived as a wanderer.
- His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
- Zero Degree was inducted into the prestigious '50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best of Indian Fiction', published by HarperCollins.
- Vahni Capildeo places Charu Nivedita on par with Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce and Jean Genet, in her article in the Caribbean Review of Books.
- He was selected as one among 'Top Ten Indians of the Decade 2001 - 2010' by The Economic Times.
- He is inspired by Marquis de Sade and Andal.
- His columns appear in magazines such as Art Review Asia, The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle.
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