Alagu Subramaniam

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Date of birth
Precise DOB unknown
Y
Country of birth
Ceylon
Current name country of birth
Sri Lanka
Date of death
Precise date of death unknown
Y
Location

London

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About

Alagu Subramaniam was a Ceylon-born English short story writer. He was one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine Indian Writing. Mulk Raj Anand and Iqbal Singh also published one of his short stories in their anthology Indian Short Stories (New India Publishing Company, 1946). His short stories were published by a number of journals, such as Life and Letters Today and the Left Review. He was also involved with the anti-colonial organization Swaraj House.

Connections

Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhicoo Batlivala, Krishnarao Shelvankar, Iqbal Singh, Sasadhar Sinha, M. J. Tambimuttu, Jinadasa Vijayatunga.

Organizations
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Secondary works

Brooker, Peter and Thacker, Andrew (eds), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Ranasinha, Ruvani, South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007)