Veeram's writer was Siva.
 Both works became well-known and popular; their protagonists and story were developed further through many adaptations, including film versions
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008), who used his experience of imprisonment as the subject of his writing in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Wardthe latter, while legally published in the Soviet Union, had to gain the approval of the USSR Union of Writers

