Anees Salim
Anees Salim is an advertising professional and is employed with Draft FCB Ulka. He loves being invisible and lives with his wife and son in Kochi. Vanity Bagh is his second novel.
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Anjum Hasan is an Indian poet and novelist. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya and currently lives in Bangalore, India. She has also contributed poems, articles and short stories to various national and international publications.
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Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
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Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix -
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.
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After his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a fatwa calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. In total, 20 countries bann -
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
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Anita Nair
Anita Nair is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the novels The Better Man, Ladies Coupé, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting, Idris: Keeper of the Light and Alphabet Soup for Lovers. She has also authored a crime series featuring Inspector Gowda.
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Anita Nair’s other books include a collection of poems titled Malabar Mind, a collection of essays titled Goodnight & God Bless and six books for children. Anita Nair has also written two plays and the screenplay for the movie adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting which was part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI 2012 and won the National Film Award in 2013. Among other awards, she was also given the Central Sahitya Akademi award and the Crossword Prize. Her books have been translat -
William Dalrymple
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William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was -
M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as M. T., was an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and was one of the masters of post-Independence Indian literature. Randamoozham, which retells the story of the Mahabharata from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece.
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At the age of 20, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam for Valarthumrigangal at World Short Story Competition jointly conducted by New York Herald Tribune, Hindustan Times, and Mathrubhumi. His first major novel, Naalukettu (The Legacy), written at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. H -
O.V. Vijayan
O. V. Vijayan was born in Palakkad on July 2, 1930. His father O. Velukkutty was an officer in Malabar Special Police of the erstwhile Madras Province in British India.Formal schooling began at the age of twelve, when he joined Raja’s High School, Kottakkal in Malabar, directly in to sixth grade. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined the school at Koduvayur in Palakkad. He graduated from Victoria College in Palakkad and obtained a masters degree in English literature from Presidency College.
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While he lived outside Kerala for most of his adult life, spending time in Delhi and in Hyderabad (where his wife Teresa was from), he never forgot his beloved Palakkad, where the 'wind whistles through the passes and the clat -
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T.D. Ramakrishnan
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Benyamin
Benyamin (born 1971, Benny Daniel) is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam language from Nhettur, Kulanada, Pattanamtitta district of the south Indian state of Kerala. He is residing in the Kingdom of Bahrain since 1992, from the age of twenty, and his works appear regularly on Malayalam publications in Kerala.
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Subhash Chandran
Born in 1972 at Kadungallor, a real bucolic setting near Alwaye which forms the plot for his first novel Manushyanu Oru Aamukham, Mr Subhash Chandran spent his salad days at St.Alberts College, Maharajas College, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan and Law College. Being a First Rank Post Graduate in Malayalam Literature, from Maharajas College, Ernakulam where he studied with Scholorship from MG University, he joined Law College to pursue studies there, but discontinued to accept the job as a Proof Reader in Mathrubhumi Daily. He has worked as a Casual Announcer in Akasha Vani and also as a Lecturer in a Parallel College. Currently, he is working as Chief Sub Editor in Mathrubhumi, Calicut.
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G.R. Indugopan
G.R.Indugopan, is a noted young writer in Malayalam literature who has written nine books, mostly novels. Regarded as a novelist with scientific bend, his Ice -196 C is the first technology novel in malalayam, based on nanotechnology and published by DC books. Muthalayani 100% Muthala deals with the issues of globalization. His other famous novel Manaljeevikal, focuses on the sad plight of people staying in the mineral sand mining areas of Kollam Chavara area. Iruttu Pathradhipar is a collection of short stories. He has bagged several noted awards like Abudabi Shakthi, Kumkumam, Ashan prize etc.
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He is also the script writer of the Sreenivasan starred film, Chithariyavar, directed by Lalji. Recently he has scripted and directed the movie call -
Yasmin Mogahed
Yasmin Mogahed received her B.S. Degree in Psychology and her Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing her graduate work, she taught Islamic Studies and worked as a writing instructor for Cardinal Stritch University, and a staff columnist for the Islam section of InFocus News. Currently she’s a freelance writer and international speaker. She also hosts Serenity, her show on One Legacy Radio.
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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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കെ.ആർ.മീര | K.R.Meera
K.R. Meera is an Indian author, who writes in Malayalam. She won Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her short-story, Ave Maria.She has also been noted as a screenplay writer of 4 serials.
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Meera was born in Sasthamkotta, Kollam district in Kerala.She worked as a journalist in Malayala Manorama, later resigned to concentrate more on writing. She is also a well-known column-writer in Malayalam -
E. Santhosh Kumar
E Santhosh Kumar is one of the leading contemporary Malayalam writers. He has won numerous awards, including that of Kerala Sahithya Academy, Andhakaranazhi, published in 2012 and recipient of 2012 Kerala Sahitya Akademy award for best novel, is considered as one of his best. E. Santhosh Kumar was born in 1969 in Pattikkadu, Kerala. He studied in Government High School, Pattikkadu, Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur and St. Thomas College, Thrissur. He works with National Insurance Company. His contributions has largely been in novel and short story. Galapagos, which was later published as a collection, was his first published short story. He won his first Kerala Sahitya Akademy award in 2006 for "Chavukali", a collection of short stories.
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Durian Sukegawa
Durian Sukegawa studied oriental philosophy at Waseda University, before going on to work as a reporter in Berlin and Cambodia in the early 1990s. He has written a number of books and essays, TV programmes and films. He lives in Tokyo.
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Manu S. Pillai
Manu S. Pillai was born in Kerala in 1990 and educated at Fergusson College, Pune, and at King's College London. Following the completion of his master's degree, where he presented his thesis on the emergence of religious nationalism in nineteenth-century India, in 2011-12, he managed the parliamentary office of Dr Shashi Tharoor in New Delhi and was then aide to Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, a crossbencher at the House of Lords in London in 2012-13. That same year he was commissioned by the BBC as a researcher to work with Prof. Sunil Khilnani on the 'Incarnations' history series, which tells the story of India through fifty great lives. The Ivory Throne is Manu's first book.
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ആര്. രാജശ്രീ | R. Rajasree
ആര്. രാജശ്രീ 1977 ജൂലായ് 22ന് കണ്ണൂര് ജില്ലയിലെ പറശ്ശിനിക്കടവില് ജനിച്ചു. അച്ഛന്: പി.എന്. രാജപ്പന് മാസ്റ്റര്, അമ്മ: ആര്. രാജമ്മ. ആനുകാലികങ്ങളില് കഥകളും ലേഖനങ്ങളും പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. നായികാനിര്മിതി: വഴിയും പൊരുളും, അപസര്പ്പകാഖ്യാനങ്ങള്: ഭാവനയും രാഷ്ട്രീയവും, കൃഷ്ണനു വേണ്ടിയുണ്ടായ പെണ്ണുങ്ങള് എന്നിവയാണ് പുസ്തകങ്ങള്. കല്യാണിയെന്നും ദാക്ഷായണിയെന്നും പേരായ രണ്ടു സ്ത്രീകളുടെ കതയ്ക്ക് 2021ലെ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാര്ഡ് ലഭിച്ചു. തലശ്ശേരി ഗവ. ബ്രണ്ണന് കോളേജ് മലയാളവിഭാഗം & ഗവേഷണ കേന്ദ്രത്തില് അദ്ധ്യാപിക. മക്കള്: നന്ദ ശ്രീപാര്വ്വതി, നിരഞ്ജന് ശ്രീപതി. ഫോണ്: 9446422391 e-mail: rraajashree@gmail.com
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A. Helwa
A. Helwa believes that every single person on Earth is deeply loved by the Divine. She is a writer who has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers through her passionate, poetic, and love-based approach to spirituality. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily, was established while obtaining her Masters in Divinity, as a means of helping others overcome personal and spiritual struggles on their journey of experiencing divine love.
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With over 15 years of experience writing and speaking on Islam and spiritual development, A. Helwa draws from her personal experiences and traditional sources to help her readers access 'Divine love in everyday life.'
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