This talk will present the influence Latin America politics -Che Guevara, Castro, Cuba, Allende, Chile, Sub Marcos, Chiapas- and its literature – Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Juan Rulfo- had on the contemporary Tamil literature through the English translations and the traces it leaves in the writings of Tamil writers.

About the Speaker

M.Kannan is researcher and Head of the research program on Contemporary Tamil at the French Institute of Pondicherry. He is the author and editor of various books, articles, essays, and poems, both individually and in collaboration. He has organized various conferences and workshops involving contemporary Tamil literature and its place in the contemporary social milieu, and its links with Classical Tamil literature. He has published translations of literary works from Tamil into both English and French, and from English into Tamil. He has guided the research of many doctoral students from India and abroad, and established a large collection of books, articles, and manuscripts in the IFP library’s Contemporary Tamil section, working toward building a Centre for Contemporary Tamil at the IFP.

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