Muhammed Metha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Muhammed Metha

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1945

Place of Birth: Periyakulam, Tamil Nadu, India

Profession: writer, poet, songwriter, lyricist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Muhammed Metha (Mu Metha) is a Tamil poet and songwriter.
He was born in Madurai in 1945.
He popularised modern poetry (Pudukavithai) in the 1970s and has written more than 30 books, including novels, short stories and essays.
His awards include the Bharathidasan Award from the state government of Tamil Nadu.
He is also credited with 400 songs for films. Poet Mu.Metha participated in the "vanampaadi" literary movement.
That movement aimed at writing poems in the view of Marxism and world wide vision. Metha was a professor of tamil for 35 years at Presidency College, Chennai.