The World Tamil Writers’ Gallery in Erode attracted many visitors as it featured books of renowned writers from countries like Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Kolalumbur etc. Normally, such books are not available in book shops.
But the Makkal Sindhanai Peravai, which is organizing the Erode Book Festival for the 21st consecutive year, brings books from various countries and exhibits them every year out of its own interest to popularize such writers and their books.
Apart from having hundreds of their books, the gallery also had banners with their pictures and brief notes. Many visitors to the festival buy books of such Tamil writers living abroad.
The following authors books were kept in the gallery:
Paleswari, Kailasapathy, Sarangapani, Anwar, Arumuga Navalar, Vinayagar Moorthy, Palanivel, Adhi Kumaran, Singamukhil Prayoji, S Narayanan, Arivanandan, Poet Mani, A Periya Thambi Pillai Nawalur Somasundaram, Pulavar S Agasthiyar, V Selvaraj, E Murugayan, Ka Navaratnam, N Na Veerappan, Dasachithanandan, C Kandaya Pillai, Govindaswamy, Ka Perumal Swami, Vivekananda, Sri Ganesh, Chellaiyur Selvarasu, Karu Sivarasu, P Chandrakantham Kallady, Velupillai, Maulana, Pauniyor, Illa Uthayanan, Karthikesa Sivathambi, Matale Somu, Manimala, Mathiyazhagan, Sharmila, Saiyyid, Sachchitha nandan, Sukirtha Raja, Cha Kamalakannan, Somakanthan, Ma Anbazhagan, Selvanayagi, Sanavas, Bhavani, Karunakaran, Vanamathi, Sayisasi, Ira Udayanan, Ma Anbazhagan, and Kailasanatha Gurukkal.