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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He entered the world of Tamil literature in the 1990s, Jeyamohan has had impacted the Tamil literary landscape as it emerged from the post-modern phase. His best-known and critically acclaimed work is Vishnupuram, a deeply layered fantasy set as a quest through various schools of Indian philosophy and mythology. His other well-known novels include Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manithan, Eazhaam Ulagam, and Kotravai. His writing is heavily influenced by the works of humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy a -
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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.
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Balachandran Chullikkad
Balachandran Chullikkadu ( ബാലചന്ദ്രന് ചുള്ളിക്കാട്) is a renowned Malayalam poet and film actor.
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His collection of poems published are "Pathinettu kavithakal", "Amaavaasi", "Ghazal", "Maanasaantharam", "Dracula" etc. A collection of his complete poems, Balachandran Chullikkadinte Kavithakal (The Poems of Balachandran Chullikkad) (2000) was published by DC Books, Kottayam, Kerala, India. They have also published the book of his memoirs, Chidambarasmarana (2001). He married the Malayalam poetess Vijayalaksmi. -
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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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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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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M.T. Vasudevan Nair
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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S.K. Pottekkatt
Sankarankutty Kunhiraman Pottekkatt (Malayalam: ശങ്കരന്കുട്ടി കുഞ്ഞിരാമന് പൊറ്റെക്കാട്ട്), popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala, South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels, twenty-four collections of short stories, three anthologies of poems, eighteen travelogues, four plays, a collection of essays and a couple of books based on personal reminiscences. Pottekatt won the Jnanpith Award in 1980 for the novel Oru Desathinte Katha (The Story of a Locale). His works have been translated into English, Italian, Russian, German and Czech, besides all major Indian languages.
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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.
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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'.
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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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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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Akhil P. Dharmajan
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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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Sankarankutty Kunhiraman Pottekkatt (Malayalam: ശങ്കരന്കുട്ടി കുഞ്ഞിരാമന് പൊറ്റെക്കാട്ട്), popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala, South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels, twenty-four collections of short stories, three anthologies of poems, eighteen travelogues, four plays, a collection of essays and a couple of books based on personal reminiscences. Pottekatt won the Jnanpith Award in 1980 for the novel Oru Desathinte Katha (The Story of a Locale). His works have been translated into English, Italian, Russian, German and Czech, besides all major Indian languages.
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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.
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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'.
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P.F. Mathews
Poovankery Francis Mathew is an Indian author and screenplay writer in Malayalam film and Television industries. A Winner of a National Film Award for Best Screenplay and multiple State television and other literary awards, he is known for his original style of writing.Literary works such as Chaavunilam, Njayarazhcha Mazha Peyyukayayirunnu, Jalakanyakayum Gandarvanum and 2004il Alice and screen plays which include Sararaanthal, Mikhayelinte Santhathikal, Megham and Kutty Srank are some of his notable works.
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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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1983 മെയ് 21 ന് കാസര്ഗോഡ് ജില്ലയിലെ കാലിച്ചാംപൊതിയില് ജനനം. കാസര്ഗോഡ് എഞ്ചിനിയറിംഗ് കോളേജില് നിന്ന് എം.സി.എ ബിരുദം. ജനം, വെള്ളരിപ്പാടം, കിടപ്പറസമരം എന്നീ കഥാസമാഹാരങ്ങള് . കാലിച്ചാംപൊതിയിലേക്ക് ഒരു ഹാഫ്ടിക്കറ്റ് എന്ന ലേഖനസമാഹാരം.
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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 -
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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V.J. James
V. J. James was born in Changanassery, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He attended St.Theresa's Higher Secondary School, Vazhappally and St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam, before studying at St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering. He currently works for Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, as an engineer.
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He is known for his unique style of presenting subjects in Malayalam literature world. His first book, Purapaadinte Pusthakam (പുറപ്പാടിന്റെ പുസ്തകം), was published by DC Books as the winning novel in the novel competition which was conducted as a part of the 25th anniversary celebration of DC Books in 1999. Malayalam film Munthirivalli -
Lalithambika Antharjanam
Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തര്ജനം) (1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer best known for her literary works in Malayalam language. Her published oeuvre consists of nine volumes of short stories, six collections of poems, two books for children, and a novel, Agnisakshi (1976) which won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977. Her autobiography Aathmakadhakkoru Aamukham (An Introduction to Autobiography) is a very significant work.
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She was greatly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and social reform movements among the Nambudiri caste led by V. T. Bhattathiripad. Later she contributed to the social reform in her own way. Her writing reflects a sensitivity to the women's role in society, an -
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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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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Aswathy Sreekanth
Aswathy Sreekanth is an Indian television actress, television host, writer and YouTuber from Kerala.
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സാറാ ജോസഫ്
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ജനനം: 10.02.1946-ന് തൃശ്ശൂർ ജില്ലയിൽ കുരിയച്ചിറ. പിതാവ്: ലൂയിസ്. മാതാവ്: കൊച്ചുമറിയം. ചേലക്കോട്ടുകര മാർ തിമോത്തിയൂസ് ഹൈസ്കൂളിൽ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം. ഗവൺമെന്റ് കോളജിൽ അധ്യാപികയായി വിരമിച്ചു. കേരളത്തിലെ ഫെമിനിസ്റ്റ് പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ പ്രധാന സംഘാടകയും പ്രവർത്തകയും. കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി മെമ്പറായിരുന്നു. ആലാഹയുടെ പെൺമക്കൾ എന്ന നോവലിന് കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി പുരസ്കാരവും 2003-ലെ കേന്ദ്ര സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡും ചെറുകാട് അവാർഡും 2004-ലെ വയലാർ അവാർഡും മാറ്റാത്തിക്ക് പ്രഥമ ഒ. ചന്തുമേനോൻ പുരസ്കാരവും ലഭിച്ചു. അബുദാബി അരങ്ങ് അവാർഡ്, കുവൈറ്റ് കലാ പുരസ്കാരം, 2017-ൽ പത്മപ്രഭാ പുരസ്കാരം, മുട്ടത്തുവർക്കി പുരസ്കാരം. ഊരുകാവലിന് ഒ.വി. വിജയൻ പുരസ്കാരം, ബഷീർ പുരസ്കാരം, ശ്വാസ്വതി നാഷണൽ അവാർഡ്, പ്രഥമ കലൈഞ്ജർ കരുണാനിധി സാഹിത്യപുരസ്കാരം എന്നിവയും ലഭിച്ചിട് -
Uroob
P. C. Kuttikrishnan, popularly known by his penname Uroob (Malayalam: ഉറൂബ്; 1915 – 1979) was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state, South India. He along with writers like Basheer, Thakazhi, Kesavadev, and Pottekkatt formed the progressive writers in Malayalam during the twentieth century. Uroob is a recipient of Kendra Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) for his novel Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum
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M.P. Narayana Pillai
Malickathazhathu Pulluvazhy Narayana Pillai was born in the village of Pulluvazhy near Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district, Kerala. His early schooling was in the local school in Pulluvazhy and completed his Pre-University course at Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha. He then moved to Banaras Hindu University and after obtaining his B.Sc degree in Agricultural Science from there, he began his professional career as a telephone operator in the East German Consulate at Delhi. Later, he joined Central Planning Commission, Delhi as an economic investigator and worked there for five years. It was during this time that he started his literary career. In 1967, he joined the Hong Kong based Far Eastern Economic Review as the assistant editor. In 1970, he
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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.
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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.