Vallathol Narayana Menon popularly known as Vallathol, was one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala. others are Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer. He was born in the Palakkad District of Kerala state, India. He died in March 1958.
He is the author of the famous ' Sahithya Manjari '.He got the title,'Mahakavi' for his MahaK.....
Arundhati Roy (Suzanna Arundhati Roy, born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist and activist. Her First novel "God of Small Things" has become an international best-seller, and in October 1997 won the coveted Booker Prize.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father,.....
Noted poetess and environmentalist Smt. Sugathakumari was born in 1934. She was brought up in an environment that had lot to do with the world of letters. Even though her first and foremost passion is poetry but at the same times she is deeply attached with environmental issues.
Her poetry has always drawn upon her sadness and unhappine.....
Kamala Suraiya , besides being one of India’s best-known English poets, is the most famous writer of short stories in Malayalam. She is better known to Keralites as Madhavikutty.Born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar in Kerala, India, she has been Madhavikutty to Malayalee readers and Kamala Das to her English fans. Daughter of the late .....
One of India’s greatest living poets. Mystic, profound, prophetic, gentle, pure — these words describe both ONV Kurup and his work. He is also well known as a poet who fights for the rights of the oppressed and the working class."Good poetry and music exalt one to the highest levels of civilisation. Poetry and music shoul.....
She weaves magic with words, creates beautiful stories and often looks back on her days on hospital beds and winks at the readers. For Malayalis, Priya A S needs no introduction.An acclaimed writer who recently won the Bhima Bala Sahitya Award and Sahitya Akademy Sree Padmanabhaswami Endowment for her book Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu, Pri.....
Anita Nair is one of India's remarkable female writers. She exposes the conditions of women with wit and humour. Her novels and writings, including cookbooks, deals with all facets of female life.Opposite many other Indian writers with success in the West, Anita Nair not only lives in India, but also publishes her books here. Born on Jan......
Journalist writer Shinie Antony is a Kochiite who lives in Delhi.She has won two Commonwealth Prizes for her short stories. Her two collections of short stories are `Barefoot and Pregnant' (Rupa), and `Planet Polygamous: 36 Tales of Infidelity'. Shinie Antony sees life, literature and love with tinted glasses when she writes.She launched .....
Mariyamma, a noted folk song singer, who affectionately called as Mariamma Chedathi, is born in a poor family, Mariyamma after completing her primary education worked as a sweeper in SB College, Changanassery. Later, she gave lecture on folk songs for students of MA Malayalam during 2000-03 at the college. She used to perform her art in l.....
Vinitha Ramchandani, children’s writer based in Mumbai took to writing for kids, when she was studying at St. Xavier’s college, Mumbai.She was doing some stints as a journalist before taking up short story writing seriously.She says she never got real satisfaction out of her journo jobs. Her father hailing from Kochi and mothe.....
