Flowers at Dawn
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War is looming when Anbarasan arrives in Singapore from Tamil Nadu in the 1940s. Stirred by charismatic Indian National Army leader Subhas Chandra Bose to take up the struggle for Indiaās independence, he fights alongside the Japanese against the British in Southeast Asia. In this moving novel of an early immigrantās political and sexual awakening during World War II, Flowers at Dawn uncovers a little-known period of Singaporeās history with drama and realism.
The Cultural Medallion is Singaporeās highest cultural award, given to those who have achieved artistic excellence in theĀ areas of literature, dance, music, theatre and art. It was instituted in 1979 to recognise individuals whose artistic excellenceĀ and commitment to the arts have enriched and made a distinction to Singaporeās arts and cultural landscape. Epigram BooksāĀ Cultural Medallion series seeks to translate the works of Cultural Medallion winners writing in Tamil, Malay and ChineseĀ into English. Matching writers with some of the best translators working in the field today, these books are being madeĀ available to an English-language audience for the first time.
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Under the pen name Singai Ma Elangkannan, M. Balakrishnan has written six collections of short stories and six novels. His work has previously been translated into English and Malay, telecast on Radio Singapore and made into a television drama. A winner of both local and international short story writing competitions, Balakrishnan was the first Tamil writer to receive the S.E.A. Write Award in 1982. He has won the Tamizhavel Award (Gold), the Singapore Literature Prize and Singaporeās Cultural Medallion.
A.R. Venkatachalapathy is Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. He has taught at universities in Tirunelveli, Chennai, Chicago, and held the ICCR Chair of Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore, as well as fellowships in Paris, Cambridge, and Harvard. Published widely, both in English and Tamil, on the social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial Tamil Nadu, he translates between English and Tamil.
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- About the Author & Translator
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Look inside the bookĀ Ā IĀ Ā Get the E-book
War is looming when Anbarasan arrives in Singapore from Tamil Nadu in the 1940s. Stirred by charismatic Indian National Army leader Subhas Chandra Bose to take up the struggle for Indiaās independence, he fights alongside the Japanese against the British in Southeast Asia. In this moving novel of an early immigrantās political and sexual awakening during World War II, Flowers at Dawn uncovers a little-known period of Singaporeās history with drama and realism.
The Cultural Medallion is Singaporeās highest cultural award, given to those who have achieved artistic excellence in theĀ areas of literature, dance, music, theatre and art. It was instituted in 1979 to recognise individuals whose artistic excellenceĀ and commitment to the arts have enriched and made a distinction to Singaporeās arts and cultural landscape. Epigram BooksāĀ Cultural Medallion series seeks to translate the works of Cultural Medallion winners writing in Tamil, Malay and ChineseĀ into English. Matching writers with some of the best translators working in the field today, these books are being madeĀ available to an English-language audience for the first time.
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Under the pen name Singai Ma Elangkannan, M. Balakrishnan has written six collections of short stories and six novels. His work has previously been translated into English and Malay, telecast on Radio Singapore and made into a television drama. A winner of both local and international short story writing competitions, Balakrishnan was the first Tamil writer to receive the S.E.A. Write Award in 1982. He has won the Tamizhavel Award (Gold), the Singapore Literature Prize and Singaporeās Cultural Medallion.
A.R. Venkatachalapathy is Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. He has taught at universities in Tirunelveli, Chennai, Chicago, and held the ICCR Chair of Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore, as well as fellowships in Paris, Cambridge, and Harvard. Published widely, both in English and Tamil, on the social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial Tamil Nadu, he translates between English and Tamil.
