 Comprehensive Tamil biographies of Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Premchand & Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar have also been penned by him.His Nazrul biography was awarded the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize (Madras) and the Rabindra Smirti Puraskar of the government of Bengal.The biographies of Premchand and Vidyasagar also won him the Ilakkia Chintanai Prize.