[I failed to include one of the finest short story writers,
bi.es. rAmaiyA, among the possible MMTL. It was an oversight.]
jeyakAn^than BIBLIOGRAPHY
A: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
TITLE (pages) DATE PUBLISHER
1. Or ilakkiyavAdhiyin arasiyal anubavaNGgaL (428) Oct 1974
2. Or ilakkiyavAdhiyin kalaiyulaka anubavaNGgaL (316) Sep 1980 L
B: BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
3. vAzhvikka van^dha gAn^dhi (198) 1973 L
(Translation of Romain Rolland's French biography
of Gandhi, with the help of Ms. jeyajjanani)
4. oru kadhAsiriyarin kadhai (71) May 1989
( Life of munshi prEmc(h)an^d(h) )
E: COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
5. munnOttam (212) Sep 1972 L
6. avarkaL uLLE irukkiRArkaL (147) Oct 1972
7. n^inaiththup pArkkiREn (192) 1973 C
8. sudhan^thirach chin^thanai (160) Jan 1974 L
9. bArathi pAdam (100) Nov 1974 L
10. oru pirajaiyin kural (148) Feb 1975 L
11. imayaththukku appAl (96) Aug 1979 M
12. vAkkumUlam (87) Feb 1980 M
13. yOchikkum vELaiyil.. (127) Nov 1982 M
14. pOnadhum nan^dhadhum (80) Jan 1983 B
15. vAzhkkai azhaikkiRadhu (200) Aug 1957
16. kaivilaNGgu (95) Jan 1961
(Was made into a movie )
S: COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES
53. oru pidi sORu (144) Sep 1958
54. inippum karippum (158) Aug 1960
55. dhEvan varuvArA (176) 1961
56. mAlai mayakkam (142) Jan 1962
57. yugasan^dhi (288) Oct 1963
58. uNmai sudum (188) Sep 1964
59. pudhiya vArppukaL (168) Apr 1965
60. suyadharisanam (152) Apr 1967
61. iRan^dha kAlaNGgaL (184) Feb 1969
62. gurupIdam (184) Oct 1971
63. chakkaram n^iRpathillai (138) Feb 1975
64. pugai n^aduvinilE... (124) Dec 1990
65. sumaithANGgi (???) (???)
ADDITIONAL REMARKS:
(1) There is also a slim volume of English translations of
jeyakAn^than's short stories. It is titled: GAME OF CARDS
and OTHER STORIES: JAYAKANTHAN - ENGLISH RENDERING, by
K. DIRAVIAM and it is published by Asian Book Company,
14 Peters Road, Madras 600 014. The translations are not very
very dood and don't do any justice at all to JK's genius.
(2) Under ESSAYS, I should have also included a collection of
JK's PREFACES titled "jeyakAn^thanin munnuraikaL." I do not have
a copy of this book.
(3) I have misplaced my copies of "unnaippOl oruvan", "in^dha n^Eraththil
ivaL," and "sumaithANGgi." Some of the readers may recall that
"unnaippOl oruvan" was made into a very fine movie. It was the
first thamizh movie to win an award ( The third prize or the Bronze)
at the all India level (President's awards.) Satyajit Ray's
masterpiece ChArulathA made from Tagore's short story
"noshta n^Ir" (Broken Home) won the Best film award. The
totally undeserving Hum DOnO ( of the Anand Brothers) - a
Bollywood Hindi Film extolling national integration and
sacrifice ( in the year following the India-China war) won the
silver and JK's film won the Bronze (The Best Regional Film award,
I believe.)
(4) JK also wrote occaional poetry. Some of it is quite good.
One of them particularly, "nI yAr" which appeared in No. 32
of the si. su. chellappA magazine ezhuththu (1960-61?) is excellent.
I will include it in my next posting.
There are other earlier short stories which appeared in janasakthi,
sakthi etcetera and essays written elsewhere, foe example, in
kalpanA which have not appeared in any of the collections and are
therefore not included in this BIBLIOGRAPHY. But over 60 major
works in a span of 32 years is a great achievement. In addition,
when one looks at the quality of these publications and their
influence over future generations of thamizh writers and the reading
public, there can be no doubt that jeyakAn^than is a major writer of
international standards and that he deserves to be more widely
known in India and abroad.