Women in Sahitya Academy Award-winning novels

Abstract

From 2012 to 2020 (excluding 2013), the Sahitya Akademi explores their status based on some of the female characters in the award-winning novels. In the novel 'Thol', a female character named Arukkani goes to work in a leather factory due to her family situation.  Love blossoms for her at work. Without respecting her feelings for the place, she abandons love, thinking of the consequences of continuing that love.  A third victim of superstition is the neck stretching. The situation arises where she meets her boyfriend one day.  She protects the culture and culture without going with him in that situation.  In the novel 'Anjadi', a woman named Veerammal marries a man of her choice to her mother and father. The mother maintains her husband's respect in the home, no matter how poor her husband may be. When Veerammal offers to give her grains at her birth house, Wendy refuses to buy them to protect the house. The husband behaves like a mature woman at home. In the novel 'Sancharam', Veena Soundarammal lends a helping hand to a helpless blind Nataswara artist and marries him. She does the work he needs to do and expresses humanity. The blister character in the novel 'Chool' is a woman who cannot give birth and at the same time is a mother to many buffaloes and lives with mental courage and self-confidence. Their friendship emerges from the characterization of Arunmozhi in the novel 'Invalid Money', who cries after meeting his friend in danger.  The status of such women has been explored in this article.