While N Nithyananda Bharathi has been chosen for Thiruvalluvar award for 2020, the following have been selected for Thiruvalluvar Thirunaal awards for 2019: Gingee N Ramachandran (ThanthaiPeriyar award), Ambedkar award (K Arjunan), Perarignar Anna award (G Samarasam), Kamarajar award (MS Mathivanan), MahakaviBharathiyar award (P Sivaraji), Bharathidasan award (T Thenisai Chellappa), Thiru Vi Ka award (S Sundararajan) and KAP Viswanatham award (Manimekalai Kannan).