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- ↑ Tamil Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2010-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
- ↑ An Album of Indian writers: issued on the occasion of Frankfurt World Book Fair. Sahitya Akademi. 1986.
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