Tamil 1981
May 22, 2019
Title: குட்டி இளவரசன் (Kutti ilavarasan)
Language: Tamil
Publisher: Cre-A Alliance Française
Translator: S. Madanacalliany & V. Sri Ram
Place of publication: Chennai, India
Year of Publication: 1981
The significance of this edition lies in the facts that this is a joint publication of Cre-A and the French Institute and Alliance Française Chennai and that the text is in the older script of the Tamil language. I must explain the second point. In 1977 the government of Tamil Nadu introduced a few changes in the Tamil script and the citizens did not take that script immediately. The publishers wanted to see the acceptance of the script by the public. So, in 1981 when they printed the first edition they used the older script. Only a few years later, finding that the changes in the script were stablished they switched over to the new script. Print run 1.100 copies.
Other publications: 1994, 2009, 2012, 2013.