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Sharankumar Limbale

Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiography Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.

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P.K. Balakrishnan

P. K. Balakrishnan (1926–1991) was a Malayalam novelist, critic and historian. His multifaceted interests took him through politics, journalism, public speaking and creative writing. He was a patriot who gave up his studies for the freedom of the country.

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Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.

Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin

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T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

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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.
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

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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.
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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തകഴി |Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam: തകഴി ശിവശങ്കര പിള്ള) (17 April 1912 - 10 April 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language. He is popularly known as Thakazhi, after his place of birth. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works, which are known for their attention to historic detail. He has written several novels and over 600 short stories. His most famous works are Kayar (Coir, 1978) and Chemmeen (Prawns, 1956; film adaptation, 1965). He was awarded India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith in 1984.

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Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, Hindi: सआदत हसन मंटो), the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab's Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died a few months short of his forty-third birt

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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer is regarded as one of the prominent literary figures ever existed in india. He was a legend in Kerala.

He was one of those outspoken figures who revolutionized Malayalam Literature, and Thus the World Literature itself with his dauntless sarcasm, satire, and black humor.

Often referred to as the Beypore Sultan (the king of Beypore) by the colleagues, he was one of the prominent figures behind the artistical, economical, and social reformation of the Kerala Culture.

His novel Shabdangal (The Voices) was once banned due to its echo that cyclonized a once feudalistic society.

He is also regarded as the translators nightmare. This is mainly because of the colloquial touch he added to his writings, which ethnically speaking w

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Kamala Suraiyya Das

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Kamala Suraiyya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), also known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and Kamala Das, was an Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography.

Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune. Das has earned considerable respect in recent years.

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Sharankumar Limbale

Sharankumar Limbale is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books, but is best known for his autobiography Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi is translated in several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on Dalit literature.

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Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

Malayattoor Ramakrishnan was born on 30 May 1927 as K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer in Kalpathi in Palakkad (Palghat) in a family of Kerala Iyers.
After earning the B.L. degree he started his career as an Advocate.Later he started his work as a sub-editor in The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. He was a contributing cartoonist to Shankar's Weekly. He is also credited with the first Malayalam translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula apart from translating Sherlock Holmes novels into Malayalam.
In 1957, he entered the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).The memoirs of his long career as a bureaucrat are narrated in his work Service Story – Ente IAS Dinangal.
alayattoor wrote his best known work - Verukal (Roots) in 1965. It is a semi-autobiographical work whic

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Dibyendu Palit

দিব্যেন্দু পালিত-এর জন্ম ৫ মার্চ ১৯৩৯ (২১ ফাল্গুন, ১৩৪৫), ভাগলপুরে। শিক্ষা : তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে এম-এ (১৯৬১)। কর্মজীবনের শুরু ১৯৬১-তে, হিন্দুস্থান স্ট্যান্ডার্ডে সাংবাদিক হিসাবে। ১৯৬৫-তে যোগ দেন বিপণন ও বিজ্ঞাপন সংক্রান্ত পেশায়। এই সূত্রে দীর্ঘকাল যুক্ত ছিলেন ক্লারিয়ন-ম্যাকান, আনন্দবাজার ও দ্য স্টেট্‌স্‌ম্যান-এ। বর্তমানে সাংবাদিক, আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত। উপন্যাস, গল্প, প্রবন্ধ, কবিতা-সব ক্ষেত্রেই স্বচ্ছন্দ। লিখছেন ১৯৫৫ থেকে। আনন্দ ও রামকুমার ভূয়ালকা-সহ আরও কয়েকটি সাহিত্য পুরস্কারে সম্মানিত। ইংরাজি ও বিভিন্ন ভারতীয় ভাষায় অনূদিত হয়েছে বহু রচনা। বাংলা ও হিন্দীতে চলচ্চিত্রায়িত হয়েছে কয়েকটি কাহিনী। ‘গৃহযুদ্ধ’ ছবির সুবাদে শ্রেষ্ঠ চলচ্চিত্রকাহিনীর জন্য পেয়েছেন বি-এফ-জে-এ এবং অন্যান্য পুরস্কার।

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Perumbadavam Sreedharan

Perumbadavam Sreedharan is a prolific Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India. He has written several novels and short stories. One of his most famous and critically acclaimed novels is Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (1993) for which he won the Vayalar Award in 1996. In 2006, he was awarded the Malayattoor Award for his novel, Narayanam.
Born in the village of Perumpadavom, in Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam district of Kerala, Perumpadavom (as he is often called) started his literary career by writing poetry. He later shifted to short stories and novels. Perumbadavam has also authored scripts for 12 malayalam films and has won Kerala State Film Award for Sooryadanam (1989). Sreedharan has been noted for his connection with the Russian language and

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T.D. Ramakrishnan

T.D. Ramakrishnan is the author of bestselling Malayalam mystery novel Francis Ittykkora

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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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M. Mukundan

M. Mukundan(Malayalam: എം. മുകുന്ദൻ) is one of the pioneers of modernity in Malayalam literature. He was born on 10 September 1942 at Mayyazhi in Mahe, a one-time French territory in Kerala. He served as the president of Kerala Sahitya Akademi from October 2006 until March 2010.
Mukundan is known in Kerala as 'Mayyazhiyude Kathakaaran' (The story-teller of Mayyazhi). His native village of Mayyazhi figures in his early works: 'Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil', 'Daivathinte Vikrithikal', 'Appam Chudunna Kunkiyamma' and 'Lesli Achante Kadangal'.
His first literary work was a short story published in 1961. Mukundan has so far published 12 novels and ten collections of short stories. Mukundan's latest four novels 'Adithyanum Radhayum Mattu Chilaru

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Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker.

She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are n

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U.R. Ananthamurthy

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. He is the sixth person among eight recipients of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India and in 2013, he was nominated for Man Booker International Prize.

Ananthamurthy's works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and have been awarded with important literary prizes. His main works include Samskara, Bhava, Bharathi Pura, and Avasthe. He has written numerous short stories as well. Several of his novels and short fictions have been ma

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Akhil P. Dharmajan

ആലപ്പുഴ എസ്.ഡി.വി. സ്കൂൾ, പാതിരപ്പള്ളി ഗവണ്മെന്‍റ് എൽ.പി. സ്കൂൾ, ഗവണ്മെന്‍റ് യൂ.പി. സ്കൂൾ, മേരി ഇമ്മാക്കുലേറ്റ് എച്ച്.എസ്. പൂങ്കാവ്, ഹോളിഫാമിലി എച്ച്.എസ്. എസ്. തുടങ്ങിയ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ പന്ത്രണ്ടാം തരം വരെയുള്ള വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം. മെക്കാനിക്കൽ ഐ.ടി.ഐ, മെക്കാനിക്കൽ എഞ്ചിനീയറിംഗ് ഡിപ്ലോമ, ബി.എ.ലിറ്ററേച്ചർ, ഡിപ്ലോമ ഇൻ ഫിലിം മേക്കിംഗ് (ചെന്നൈ) എന്നിവ തുടർവിദ്യാഭ്യാസങ്ങൾ. 2018
എന്ന മലയാളം ചലച്ചിത്രത്തിന്റെ തിരക്കഥയിലൂടെ സിനിമ ലോകത്തേക്ക് കടന്നെത്തി. എഴുത്തിന്റെ തുടക്ക കാലത്ത് ഓജോ ബോർഡ് എന്ന നോവൽ ഫേസ്ബുക്കിലൂടെ അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങളായി പോസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്ത് ജനശ്രദ്ധപിടിച്ചു പറ്റി. ഫേസ്ബുക്കിൽ നിന്നും പുസ്തകരൂപത്തിൽ പുറത്തിറക്കുന്ന ആദ്യത്തെ മലയാളനോവൽ എന്ന ബഹുമതി ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിന് ലഭിച്ചു. ചെറുകഥകൾ, നോവലുകൾ, സിനിമ, യാത്ര എന്നിവ ഇഷ്ട വിഷയങ്ങൾ. തമിഴ്, മലയാളം ഭാഷകളിൽ ഹൃസ്വചിത്രങ്ങള

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit

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Dibyendu Palit

দিব্যেন্দু পালিত-এর জন্ম ৫ মার্চ ১৯৩৯ (২১ ফাল্গুন, ১৩৪৫), ভাগলপুরে। শিক্ষা : তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে এম-এ (১৯৬১)। কর্মজীবনের শুরু ১৯৬১-তে, হিন্দুস্থান স্ট্যান্ডার্ডে সাংবাদিক হিসাবে। ১৯৬৫-তে যোগ দেন বিপণন ও বিজ্ঞাপন সংক্রান্ত পেশায়। এই সূত্রে দীর্ঘকাল যুক্ত ছিলেন ক্লারিয়ন-ম্যাকান, আনন্দবাজার ও দ্য স্টেট্‌স্‌ম্যান-এ। বর্তমানে সাংবাদিক, আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত। উপন্যাস, গল্প, প্রবন্ধ, কবিতা-সব ক্ষেত্রেই স্বচ্ছন্দ। লিখছেন ১৯৫৫ থেকে। আনন্দ ও রামকুমার ভূয়ালকা-সহ আরও কয়েকটি সাহিত্য পুরস্কারে সম্মানিত। ইংরাজি ও বিভিন্ন ভারতীয় ভাষায় অনূদিত হয়েছে বহু রচনা। বাংলা ও হিন্দীতে চলচ্চিত্রায়িত হয়েছে কয়েকটি কাহিনী। ‘গৃহযুদ্ধ’ ছবির সুবাদে শ্রেষ্ঠ চলচ্চিত্রকাহিনীর জন্য পেয়েছেন বি-এফ-জে-এ এবং অন্যান্য পুরস্কার।

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തകഴി |Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam: തകഴി ശിവശങ്കര പിള്ള) (17 April 1912 - 10 April 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language. He is popularly known as Thakazhi, after his place of birth. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works, which are known for their attention to historic detail. He has written several novels and over 600 short stories. His most famous works are Kayar (Coir, 1978) and Chemmeen (Prawns, 1956; film adaptation, 1965). He was awarded India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith in 1984.

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M Swaraj

M Swaraj (born 1979) is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was a representative of Thripunithura constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was the former Kerala State Secretary of Students' Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India.[1] He is a member of the CPI(M) Kerala State Secretariat and State Committee.

M. Swaraj was born at Pathar, Malappuram District. He attended SVHSS Palemad, Edakkara for his Secondary education. He then completed his BA degree in Economics from Mar Thoma College, Chungathara. He later pursued an LLB degree from Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram in 2004 and a Master's degree from Annamalai University in 2007.

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