it was all due to the interest shown by a researcher friend ar venkatachalapathy who took the script to a wellknown publisher with a new title love stands alone born in tirunelveli in 1934 thangappa has published collections of poetry in tamil and english for so many years i could not get a proper word for geluvu in tamil puram deals with the poems of outer life i joined bangalore university in 1986 born in 1962 in salem nanjundan has published his collections of poetry and short stories with 160 poems from the sangam literature love stands alone is considered a significant contribution to indian poetry in english since the book is about the three kings it is called muthollayiram the recognition given to me as a translator through the award may bias me towards giving more time and attention to translation than i have actually intended he said but it was after twenty years a revised edition with more poems titled love stands alone was published g nanjundan who won the award for his book akka a tamil translation of short stories by kannada women writers has a different story to tell he then selected one short story each of ur ananthamurthy radhavendra kashaneesa p lankesh shanthinath desai and poornachandra tejasvi and translated into tamil there can be no other icon to represent the womanhood of kannada culture other than akka he said it was published in 2001 by kalachuvadu as pirappu thangappas cholakkolai bommai won him the bal sahitya puraskar of sahitya akademi after love stands alone penguin has also published another translation by thangappa ur ananthamurthy frequently used geluvu in his stories the kannada which we speak at home in salem has a stronger impact of tamil similarly there are some kannada words for which even now i have not found equivalents it may be difficult to find an appropriate word in the target language for an often used word of the source language according to nanjundan since my education was in tamil i always felt that i was a tamil equivalents may not exist in the target language when i thought of a title for the anthology of short stories by women the first name that flashed to me was akka mahadevi popularly known as akka a poetess of kannada veerashaiva movement who lived in the 12th century chennai two sahitya akademi awardwinning translators from tamil nadu ml thangappa and g nanjundan talk about the challenges they faced thangappa a poet and scholar whose love stands alone selections from tamil sangam poetry won him the sahitya akademis translation prize in 2012 said it was a challenging job to translate tamil sangam poetry into english he teaches at the department of statistics bangalore university but he wanted to learn kannada he even wrote an elaborate introduction which helped even nontamil scholars take a serious interest in my translation said thangappa akam poetry is concerned with love in its varied forms a couple of years of hard work