Jeyamohan

Jeyamohan

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Jeyamohan Profile

  • Name:
  • Jeyamohan
  • Born:
  • April 22, 1962
  • Father:
  • S.baguleyan Pillai
  • Mother:
  • B.visalakshi Amma
  • Spouse:
  • Arunmozhi Nangai

Jeyamohan Biography

B. Jeyamohan, also pronounced as Jayamohan is a noted writer of Tamil and Malayalam languages. He is also known as a literary critic from Nagercoil of Kanya Kumari, the southern district of Tamil Nadu. Vishnupuram is his best known and critically acclaimed work. Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manithan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai are other noted works. He is deeply influenced by the works of great humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He started his literal career in the early 1990’s.

 

Jeyamohan was born on 22 April 1962 to S.Baguleyan Pillai and B.Visalakshi Amma in Arumanai, Nagercoil. He was influenced a lot by his mother for his literary works and considers her as goddess Saraswathi. He has 2 siblings. Due to his father’s transfers, they stayed at different parts of Tamil Nadu as well as south Kerala. During his commerce studies at Pioneer Kumarasamy College in Nagercoil, he became a victim of depression following his dearest friend’s death. After a series of incidents, he took up a temporary job at the Telephones department in Kasargode. His correspondence with senior Tamil writer Sundara Ramasami started during this period and he maintained the relationship till his death.

 

In 1987, the journal Kollippaavai published his poem Kaidhi. Same year, Nadhi was published in Kanaiyazhi. Bodhi and Padugai were his next published ones and he was praised by critics for Padugai. Jeyamohan wrote his first full-fledged novel Rubber in 1988 which revealed the ecological and sociological impact of rubber cultivation in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.  The novel won the Akilan Memorial prize. Jeyamohan married Arunmozhi Nangai in the year 1991 and the couple has 2 children. Jeyamohan has worked in Department of Telecommunications at different places of Tamil Nadu.

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Updated: January 21, 2014

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