Charu Nivedita aka Charu (born 18 December 1953) is a Tamil writer based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree (1998) was translated into English in 2013 and longlisted that year for the annual Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. [1]

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Charu Nivedita is a post-modern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. He is the first to write Auto-fiction in India. His magnum opus Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.

Feb 17, 2024 · Charu Nivedita shot to mainstream literary fame after ‘Conversations with Aurangzeb’. He’s a genius to fans, a porn peddler to critics, but his life is extraordinary any way you look at it. Pune: Tamil writer. A short, wiry man, Charu told me recently at the Kerala Literary Festival on Calicut beach, “In Tamil Nadu, I am a rock star.”

I told the policemen, ‘Charu Nivedita is my chittappa (the younger brother of father), and he has stepped out briefly. Please have a cup of tea somewhere and come back soon; I’ll call him on the phone.’. Here is the latest article of the series My Life My Text from The Asian Review.

Feb 8, 2024 · Well known for some of the brilliant literature works such as “Marginal Man, To Byzantium, A Turkey Travelogue, Unfaithfully Yours, Morgue Keeper and Towards a Third Cinema, Charu Nivedita is the author of more than sixty works in Tamil.

Jun 13, 2024 · Charu Nivedita (18 December 1953) is considered one of the foremost writers of post modern, post structuralist aesthetics and the forerunner of transgressive writing in Tamil.

Charu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.

Oct 1, 2010 · Charu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.

Charu Nivedita is the author of nearly hundred works in Tamil, ranging from collections of essays to novels, anthologies of poetry to short stories - Marginal Man, To Byzantium: A Turkey Travelogue, Unfaithfully Yours, Morgue Keeper and Towards a Third Cinema.