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About Venkat Swaminathan
- Venkat Swaminathan (1 June 1933 - 21 October 2015) was a Tamil writer and popular literary critic.
- Born in Udaiyalur near Kumbakonam, he worked in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and spent his professional life in Delhi.
- Post-retirement, he lived in Chennai and moved to Bangalore after his wife's death.
- He died in 2015 and is survived by a son. C.
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- Subramanyam brought Swaminathan to the literary field, and his first work was published in Ezhuthu run by Chellappa.
- He also brought out his own magazine Yatra.
- He was writing from 1959 till his death in 2015.
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