S. Venkatesan

1. "Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Vasanthabalan at it again, going for offbeat theme". The Hindu . 19 July 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
2. Muralidharan, Kavitha (8 December 2018). "Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel 'Velpari' has crossed 100 instalments". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
3. "17th Lok Sabha Elections: Victorious Candidates of CPI(M)". People's Democracy. Communist Party of India (Marxist). 2 June 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019. Su Venkatesan is a state committee member of the Party and a whole-timer of the Party. He is the state president of Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association. He was conferred the Sahitya Academy Award for his Tamil novel Kaval Kottam. His recent book Vel Pari was widely well-received among the public. He is well known in the literary field and is popular among general public. Su Venkatesan who contested from Madurai parliamentary constituency secured 4,47,075 (44 per cent) votes defeating his nearest rival (AIADMK candidate) by a margin of 1,34,119 votes.
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5. "Little-known author is toast of Tamil Nadu". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
6. "Madurai novelist wins Sahitya Akademi award". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
7. "Galaxy of achievers receive 'Tamilan' awards". The Hindu. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
8. "CPI(M) MP wins literary award". The Hindu. 6 January 2020.
9. "MP's novel gets award from literary forum in Malaysia". The Hindu. 2 January 2021.

Su. Venkatesan
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 June 2019

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1955–1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) C. Rajagopalachari (1958) Mu. Varadarajan (1961) Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) Akilan (1963) P. Sri Acharya (1965) M. P. Sivagnanam (1966) K. V. Jagannathan (1967) A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) Bharatidasan (1969) Ku. Alagirisami (1970) Na. Parthasarathy (1971) D. Jayakanthan (1972) Rajam Krishnan (1973) K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) R. Dhandayudham (1975)
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2001–present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) Vairamuthu (2003) Tamilanban (2004) G. Thilakavathi (2005) Mu. Metha (2006) Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) Puviarasu (2009) Nanjil Nadan (2010) S. Venkatesan (2011) D. Selvaraj (2012) Joe D'Cruz (2013) Poomani (2014) A. Madhavan (2015) Vannadasan (2016) Inkulab (2017) S. Ramakrishnan (2018) Cho Dharman (2019) Imayam (2020) C. S. Lakshmi (2021) M. Rajendran (2022) Rajasekaran (Devibharathi) (2023) A. R. Venkatachalapathy (2024)