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Sahitya Akademi award-winning Tamil writer Poomani passes at 79
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Poomani received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for his monumental novel Agnaadi, an epic narrative set against the backdrop of the Sivakasi (1899) and Kazhugumalai (1895) communal riots; Chief Minister Vijay announces State honours
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