Pruiksma translated 60 of his favourite poems and published it as a book named Give, Eat and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar. Pruiksma is next working on a project to translate the entirety of Avvaiyar ...

Pruiksma translated 60 of his favourite poems and published it as a book named Give, Eat and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar. Pruiksma is next working on a project to translate the entirety of Avvaiyar ...

Avvaiyar was the title of more than one female poet who were active during different periods of Tamil literature. They were some of the most famous and important female poets of the Tamil canon.

Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma credits Avvaiyar for bringing his desire to be a writer back. “I had a breakthrough reading Avvaiyar’s poems. I learnt what a line of poetry can do, how beautiful a ...