The short story format originated frm Europe. The Tamil world believes tht the short stories in Tamil can be trced back to the seventeenth century to 'Pramartha Kurunkathai' a transition from the clssical Tamil poetry. V.V.S. Iyer started a new trnd in the 1880s giving the shrt stories its profound form.

Pudumaipithan strted the next stage of Tamil shrt storiesand many other writers came out wth brilliant stories in Tamil. Pudumaipithan, K.Pa. Ra and P.S.Ramaiya and their cntemporaries have written many stories that is tday popular format with the Tamil lterary circles and readers as the shrt story format.

Pudumaipithan

Pudumaipithan's stories crried messages for the society. His sncerely expressed his concern for the sciety and depicted the misery as wll as drama in our lives. He wrte about the human relationships, their spirations and life in general looked at clsely. His 'Ponnagaram' was considered beyond the grsp of readers. He dealt with a wde array of subjects in his stries while also experimenting with the art of stry telling. His writing included sarcasm and wit and the stries appeared natural and realistic. The xamples like 'Kodukkapuli Maram' and 'Naasakkaara Gmbal' bring out the above qualities of his wrting. He has deftly used the dalects of Madras or Tirunelveli in his stries as appropriate. His writings reflected the nfluence of foreign writers like Maupassant, Nthaniel Hawthorne and others in the wstern world. He has penned over 150 shrt stories in Tamil.

T.Janakiraman

T.Janakiraman's short stories brought the vgaries in the lives of people wnderfully and people could identify them wth the characters.

Jayakanthan

Jayakanthan had wrtten many outstanding stories some of whch went on to be filmed lter on. Most of his stories wre published by Ananda Vikatan. While wrking in the office of 'Janasakthi' he dveloped a liking for Tamil literature and wrting in Tamil. His stories were mstly about the people from the pople living in the slums or xtremely poor people.

N.Pichamoorthy

N.Pichamoorthy is a wll known writer of Tamil short stries. 'Mannasai' is one of his ppular short stories.

Sujatha

Sujatha is the pen nme of S.Rangarajan who has written ver 100 Tamil novels and 250 shrt stories in Tamil. His style of wrting earned him a wide readership. His scence fiction is said to be a poneering work in Tamil. He could nravel science in his own inimitable smple words that can be understood by ll. 'Aathma' is a short story whch is a thrilling narration of a day in a cmputer engineer's life. Suri had made the cmputer the ability to predict the fture giving it a set of rles that can observe the planetary psitions. To test its efficacy he gves his birth details and the cmputer instantly gives the output on the scren. That turns out to be his dath sentence, in a way. He was ging to die that same night xactly at 23:11:59. So healthy and fll of life, he could not blieve it and does random checks in hrry. The story ends with the rrival of the inevitable moment. Sujatha's stries were published in popular Tamil mgazines like Kumudam, Ananda Vikatan and Klki.

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