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* 1957, Singapore, Сингапур
Место жительства: Singapore, Сингапур

ELANGOVAN (b. 1957), bilingual poet-playwright-director, and Artistic Director of Agni Kootthu (Theatre of Fire), is the pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and experimental Tamil theatre in Singapore.
He was educated in Raffles Institution. He obtained his BA from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and MA from the Middlesex University, UK, in Theatre Directing.

He has published three collections of poetry and thirteen collections of plays. Flush, Oodaadi (Medium), and 1915, received the SingaporeInternationale Award. His plays Talaq (2000), Smegma (2006) and Stoma (2013), are still banned from performance in Singapore. His recent publications are The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Three Banned Plays, 2014, and Alamak, 2018.

He transcreated into English two Malaysian Tamil poetry collections, Sarvam Brahmasmi by M Navin (2009), Call Me Doggie by Renuga (2012), and also transcreated (81 poems) from English to Tamil for Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo’s complete collection of poems in Tamil: Aalam - The Banyan (2016). He received the 1997 SEA (South-East Asia) Write Award, in Bangkok, Thailand for his bilingual contribution to poetry and theatre in Singapore.

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