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The pennezhuthu category is its most decisive and controversial form, changing the historiography of women's writing in India and the images of certain writers and writing trends. Malayalam literature's most significant female authors are K. Saraswathi Amma , Rajalakshmi , Lalithambika Antharjanam and Madhavikutty (Kamala Das), best known for ...
Balamani Amma was born on 19 July 1909 [5] to Chittanjoor Kunhunni Raja and Nalapat Kochukutti amma at Nalappat, her ancestral home in Punnayurkulam, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India. She had no formal education, and the tutelage under her maternal uncle and his collection of books helped her become a poet. [ 6 ]
Sithara S. (born 1972) is an Indian feminist writer in Malayalam from Kerala. [1] In her short stories and novels she has highlighted women's issues, gender conflict and lesbian rights . [ 2 ] In 2004 she won Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for her contributions to Indian literature [ 3 ] She is also a translator from Malayalam to English ...
Ashitha, who authored over 20 books, [8] [9] was known to have portrayed her life experiences through short stories and poems. [10] Counted among the most prominent women writers in Malayalam after Kamala Surayya and best known for her short stories, [11] she translated a number of works of Alexander Pushkin and Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī as well as many haikus. [12]
Thomas had started writing long before the concept of feminine literature evolved in Malayalam. She published her first novel Jivitamenna Nadi at the age of 34. She became noted in the literary field after the publication of the novel Murippadukal in 1971. The novel narrated the life of a young man brought up in a Roman Catholic orphanage and ...
The text of the novel is prescribed for M.A. programmes in Malayalam offered by Madurai Kamaraj University (1998–2008), Mahatma Gandhi University (1991–1992), University of Kerala (1984, 1977–1992, 2007, 2012, 2013) and as a reference book for M.A. programme in Malayalam offered by University of Madras. [251]
K. Satchidanandan (born 28 May 1946) is an Indian poet [1] and critic, writing in Malayalam and English.A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, [2] he is the former editor of Indian Literature journal and the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi. [3]
Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (transl. Like a Psalm) is a 1993 Malayalam novel written by Indian novelist and writer Perumbadavam Sreedharan.Set in the city of Saint Petersburg, it deals with the life of the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his love affair with Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina who would later become his wife.