When Ramanathan Vairavan's debut poetry collection Kavithai Kuzhanthaikal (Poetic Children) won the 2012 Singapore Literature Prize for Tamil, he considered it the validation of a decade's work.
The software engineer, 55, wrote the 105 poems in his collection - on family, nature, relationships, the country and more - in his spare time. Often, he would wake up at 5.30am to put his thoughts to paper before work.
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