Daniel Selvaraj

D. Selvaraj (; 14 January 1938 – 20 December 2019) was a Tamil writer. He was the author of a number of novels, short stories, and plays in Tamil. He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best Novel for 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled "Thol". He also won the Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil in 2012.
Selvaraj died on 20 December 2019 from an illness at a private hospital in Chennai at the age of 81.