<p>Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has been selected for the ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman for his novel ‘One Part Woman’ (Madhorubhagan), which put the writer in the eye of a storm after fringe Hindutva groups objected to the work.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This year’s award was decided by a jury chaired by K Satchidanandan and that included Sachin Ketkar, Manglesh Dabral, Mitra Phukan and Arundhati Subramaniam, after a detailed process focussing on the five languages – Tamil, Marathi, Bangla, Dogri and Mizo. The previous winners of the award, constituted in 2012, are Ashok Vajpeyi (2014), Chandrakant Topiwala (2013), Sitakant Mahapatra (2012).<br /><br />Announcing the award, poet Satchidanandan said, “Murugan’s Madhorubhagan is a rooted and passionate work of fiction that narrates with searing intensity and unsparing clarity the story of a relationship caught between the dictates of social convention and the tug of personal anxieties.”</p>
<p>Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has been selected for the ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman for his novel ‘One Part Woman’ (Madhorubhagan), which put the writer in the eye of a storm after fringe Hindutva groups objected to the work.<br /><br /></p>.<p>This year’s award was decided by a jury chaired by K Satchidanandan and that included Sachin Ketkar, Manglesh Dabral, Mitra Phukan and Arundhati Subramaniam, after a detailed process focussing on the five languages – Tamil, Marathi, Bangla, Dogri and Mizo. The previous winners of the award, constituted in 2012, are Ashok Vajpeyi (2014), Chandrakant Topiwala (2013), Sitakant Mahapatra (2012).<br /><br />Announcing the award, poet Satchidanandan said, “Murugan’s Madhorubhagan is a rooted and passionate work of fiction that narrates with searing intensity and unsparing clarity the story of a relationship caught between the dictates of social convention and the tug of personal anxieties.”</p>