Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes novels in Tamil. He has written eleven novels, five collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry to his credit. Seven of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, Current Show, One Part Woman, Pyre, poonachi, Trail by silence and A lonely harvest . He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Attur, Salem Dt.