# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mu-varadarajan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:16:10.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mu-varadarajan"
name: "Mu. Varadarajan"
slug: "mu-varadarajan"
description: "Mu. Varadarajan, also known as Mu. Va. and Varatharasanar, was a Tamil scholar, author and academic from Tamil Nadu, India.\nHe was born in an aristocratic Thuluva Vellala family near Vellore. He was a prolific writer whose published works include 13 novels, 6 plays, 2 short story collections, 11 essay anthologies, a book on the history of Tamil literature, books on Tamil linguistics and children's books. During 1961–71, he was the head of the Tamil department at the University of Madras. In 1961, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his novel Agal Vilakku. During 1971–74, he was the vice-chancellor of the University of Madurai."
tagline: "Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Tamil scholar, writer and educationist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-04-25"
deathDate: "1974-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.878114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump