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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Perumal Murugan is a well-known contemporary Tamil writer and poet. He was written six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry. Three of his novels have been translated into English to wide acclaim: Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Kiriyama Award in 2005, Current Show, and most recently, One Part Woman. He has received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. -
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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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Raju Murugan
Raju Murugan is a writer, journalist turned filmmaker. His works include Vatiyum Muthalum, Ondru and Jipsy, all of which were published in Ananda Vikatan. He made his directorial debut with Cuckoo (2014). His second film, Joker, was awarded the Best Feature Film in Tamil award at the 64th National Film Awards.
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1931ம் ஆண்டு செப்டம்பர் 22ந் தேதி, ஆந்திர மாநிலத்தில் உள்ள சிகந்தராபாத்தில் பிறந்தவர். இயற்பெயர் ஜ. தியாகராஜன். தமது இருபத்தொன்றாவது வயதில் (தந்தையின் மறைவுக்குப் பின்) குடும்பத்தினருடன் சென்னைக்குக் குடியேறி, ஜெமினி ஸ்டுடியோவில் மக்கள் தொடர்புத் துறையில் பணியாற்றத் தொடங்கினார். அப்போது அகில இந்திய வானொலி நடத்திய ஒரு நாடகப் போட்டிக்காக "அன்பின் பரிசு" என்னும் நாடகத்தை எழுதினார். அதுவே அசோகமித்திரனின் முதல் படைப்பு. 1954ம் ஆண்டு வானொலியில் அந்நாடகம் ஒலிபரப்பானது.
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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. -
Pudhumaipitthan
C. Viruthachalam better known by the pseudonym Pudhumaipithan (also spelt as Pudumaipithan or Puthumaippiththan), was one of the most influential and revolutionary writers of Tamil fiction. His works were characterized by social satire, progressive thinking and outspoken criticism of accepted conventions. Contemporary writers and critics found it difficult to accept his views and his works were received with extreme hostility. He is an individual and his works have been extensively reviewed and debated for over sixty years since his death. His influence has been accepted and appreciated by present-day writers and critics of Tamil fiction. In 2002, the Government of Tamil Nadu nationalised the works of Pudumaippithan.
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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 -
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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Benyamin
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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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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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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
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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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Malayattoor Ramakrishnan was born on 30 May 1927 as K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer in Kalpathi in Palakkad (Palghat) in a family of Kerala Iyers.
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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.
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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 -
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'.
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 -
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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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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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
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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 -
Vannadasan
Vannadaasan (தமிழ்: வண்ணதாசன்) aka கல்யாண்ஜி is a popular poet in Tamil Modern literature. He lives in Tirunelveli. He writes short stories and non fiction articles under the name "Vannadhasan". He writes poems under the name "Kalyanji". His real name is S. Kalayanasundaram
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Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar, whose mother tongue is Gujarathi, is a well-known short story writer and editor in Tamil with several awards to his credit. He is a Chennai-based bookshop owner. He has published three short-story collections and a critical work on Late Mouni, a pioneer of Tamil short stories. He has also translated poems, short stories, and other texts from Hindi, Gujarathi, and English into Tamil. He has edited a volume of Contemporary Tamil Short Fiction (in English) published in 1999. More recently, he has completed editing a huge volume of Tamil short stories—entitled 100 Years of Tamil Short Stories—translated into English to be published by Westland Ltd. His stories have been translated into Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati,
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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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Mr. Subhash Chandran’s debut was through a short story competi -
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 -
Era. Natarasan
கல்வி : இயற்பியல், கல்வியியல், உளவியல், ஆங்கில இலக்கியம் ஆகியவற்றில் முதுகலைப்பட்டம்
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ஆசிரியராக :
- தனது 16வது வயதில் பள்ளியிலிரூந்து கிராம நலப்பணி திட்ட முகமொன்றில் தான் மாணவராக இருக்கும் போதே பகுதிநேர ஆசிரியரானார்.
- 1986ல் அறிவியல் / மொழியியல் ஆசிரியராக பிரதான பணி துவக்கம்.
- 1996ல் சென்னையில் மெட்ரிக் மேல்நிலைப்பள்ளி ஒன்றில் முதல்வரானார்.
- 1999ல் கடலூர் கிரூஷ்ணசாமி நினைவு மெட்ரிக் மேல்நிலைப்பள்ளி முதல்வரானார். தற்போதும் தொடரூம் பணி அது.
- 2008ல் டாக்டர்.ராதாகிரூஷ்ணன் விருது.
- கல்வி நேரடி நடைமுறையில் தனி கவனம், ஆசிரியர்களின் வழிகாடி.
- வகுப்பறை ஜனநாயகம், இவரது ஆசிரிய உத்தி.
- சோதனை முயற்சிகளை தொடரும் ஆர்வலர்.
- கல்வியாளர்கள் ஜான் ஹோல்டு, பாவ்லோ பிரையரே உட்பட பலரை தமிழுக்கு அறிமுகம் செய்தவர். -
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 -
Charu Nivedita
Charu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India. His novel Zero Degree was longlisted for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Zero Degree was inducted into the prestigious '50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best of Indian Fiction', published by HarperCollins. Vahni Capildeo places Charu Nivedita on par with Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce and Jean Genet, in her article in the Caribbean Review of Books. He was selected as one among 'Top Ten Indians of the Decade 2001 - 2010' by The Economic Times. He is inspired by Marquis de Sade and Andal. His columns appear in magazines such as Art Review Asia, The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle.
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Ambai
Ambai (nom de plume of C. S. Lakshmi), is a historian, an independent Women's Studies researcher, and a feminist writer in Tamil. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Madras Christian College and MA in Bangalore and her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her dissertation was on American policy towards refugees fleeing Hungary due to the failed revolution of 1956. After completing her education, she worked as a school teacher and college lecturer in Tamil Nadu. She is married to Vishnu Mathur, a film maker, and lives in Mumbai.
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In 1962, Ambai published her first work Nandimalai Charalilae (lit. At Nandi Hills) – written when she was still a teenager. Her first serious work of fiction was the Tamil novel Andhi Maalai (lit. Twil -
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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N.S. Madhavan
Madhavan was born in the port city of Kochi . where he attended the Sree Rama Varma High School. After graduating in economics from Maharajas College, Ernakulam he moved to Thiruvananthapuram to study for his masters at the Department of Economics, University of Kerala. During this period he began writing, and in 1970 won the top prize for his first published short story 'Sisu', in a contest organized by the Malayalam literary magazine Mathrubhumi. In 1975, Madhavan joined the Indian Administrative Service
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n the 1980s, Madhavan went through a decade-long period of writer's block, until the release of his story 'Higuita' in 1990. In this work, Madhavan models his protagonist, priest Father Geevarghese, on Higuita, the 1990 FIFA World Cup goa -
V.M. Devadas
Born in Vadakkanchery in 1981. He is currently working as an IT engineer in Madras.
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Sa. Kandasamy
Sa. Kandasamy (23 July 1940 – 31 July 2020) was a novelist and documentary film-maker from Mayiladuthurai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil for his novel, Vicharanai Commission in 1998.
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Kandasamy's first novel was Saayavanam Puthinam, published in 1968. It was well-received and was later included by the National Book Trust as one of Indian literature's modern masterpieces. Saayavanam is one of the earliest examples of literature focusing on ecological concerns in India, and focuses on forest clearances and industrial development in Tamil Nadu. Kandasamy based on the novel on his own experiences in rural Tamil Nadu, and named the novel after a village that he had lived in with his family, as a child. -
Sukumaran
Sukumaran (b. 1957) is a poet who writes primarily in Tamil and translates from English and Malayalam. His published translations include Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Alessandro Barrico's Silk, Ayfer Tunc's Azizbe Incident, and One Hundred Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda. He has published six volumes of poems and six volumes of essays and articles in Tamil. He worked as editor for a Tamil weekly magazine and chief editor for a television channel in Malayalam, and is now the executive editor of Kalachuvadu, a Tamil monthly magazine. He lives in Thiruvananthapuram.
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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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വി കെ എന് | V.K.N.
V.K.N.' or VKN (abbreviated from his full name Vadakkke Koottala Narayanankutty Nair) (6 April 1932 - 25 January 2004) was a pathbreaking and celebrated Malayalam writer, noted mainly for his high-brow satire. Apart from novels, he wrote short stories and political commentaries. A native of Kerala in south India, his works are considered distinctive for their multi-layered humour, trenchant criticism of the socio-political classes and uncanny ability to twist the meanings of words contextually, thus lend a touch of magic to his language (which, at times, was English too).
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VKN's works call for an attentive and informed reader who can recognise his allusions and follow his changes in language, where he shifts between English, Hindi, Malayalam -
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. -
Roy Moxham
Roy Moxham (born 1939) is a British writer, the author of historical books highlighting little-known historical facts.
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Moxham was born in Evesham, Worcestershire on 13 September 1939 and went to Prince Henry's Grammar School there. In 1961 he went to Nyasaland (now Malawi) to manage a tea plantation. In 1973 he returned to Britain and established a small gallery in Covent Garden to sell African art, travelling widely in Africa. In 1978 he went to Camberwell College of Art and Crafts, where he qualified as a book and archive conservator. Subsequently, he was a conservator at Canterbury Cathedral Archives and then became Senior Conservator at the Senate House Library of the University of London, from which he retired in 2005. He lives in Londo -
Karthik Balasubramanian
கார்த்திக் பாலசுப்ரமணியன் (பி. 1987) இவர் 1987ஆம் வருடம் விருதுநகர் மாவட்டம், இராஜபாளையத்தில் பிறந்தார். கல்லூரிப் படிப்பை கோவையில் முடித்தவர், பணியின் நிமித்தம் நொய்டா, ஜோகன்ஸ்பர்க், சிட்னி போன்ற நகரங்களில் வசித்திருக்கிறார். தற்போது சென்னையில் மனைவி, மகனுடன் வசித்துவருகிறார். ஒரு மென்பொருள் நிறுவனத்தின் தலைமை தொழில்நுட்ப வல்லுநராகப் பணிபுரிகின்றார். இவருடைய முதல் சிறுகதைத் தொகுப்பு ‘டொரினா’ 2017ஆம் ஆண்டு வெளிவந்தது.
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