Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran

Q: When did Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran die?

Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran died on March 26, 2014.

Q: How old was Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran when they died?

Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran was 88 years old at the time of death.

Q: When was Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran born?

Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran was born on March 30, 1925.

Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran or T. G. Sivasankaran (30 March 1925 – 25 March 2014), was a Tamil writer and critic from Tamil Nadu, India. He is popularly known by his Tamil initials as Thi. Ka. Si.

Sivasankaran was born in Tirunelveli. His works were first published in the literary journal Grama oozhiyan in 1947. He was a Marxist by political orientation and a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was influential in the party's literary journal Thamarai. He was a friend and contemporary of socialist writers like Vallikannan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan. During his years in Thamarai, he was instrumental in discovering and encouraging new writers like Prapanchan, D. Selvaraj, Poomani, Vannadhasan, Tamil Nadan and Jayanthan. In 2000, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his literary criticism Vimarsanangal Mathippuraikal Pettikal (lit. Criticisms, Reviews and Interviews). In 2008, a documentary film on him was released by the Chennai Tamil Koodam. In 2010, the formation of a charitable trust in his name at the Thanjavur Tamil University was announced. He is the father of Tamil writer Vannadhasan.