Poet Laureate
Kannadasan was the poet Laureate of the Tamil Nadu Government at the time of his death.Template:Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet laureate He wrote an autobiography, titled Vanavasam a book about his life after he had left DMK and Manavasam, a book about his past life.
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