Daniel Selvaraj

D. Selvaraj (Tamil: டி. செல்வராஜ்; born 14 January 1938) is a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India. He is the author of a number of novels, short stories, and plays in Tamil. He is a lawyer by profession and is involved in various Communist and left leaning writers' organisations like Democratic Writers Association India and the Progressive writers association of Tamil Nadu (TNPWA). He is currently in the executive committee member of the TNPWA.. He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best Novel for 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled "Thol". He did the field work for Thol for a decade before writing it. The novel was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil in 2012.

Biography
Selvaraj was born to Daniel and Gnanam Ammal in 1938 in Mavadi, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, India. His parents were plantation labourers who worked in the tea plantations in Munnar at the Kerala- Tamil Nadu border...