Why I Read - Benyamin, Subhash Chandran & K.P. Ramanunni | MBIFL 2019

WHY I READ - A Conversation Between Benyamin, Subhash Chandran & K.P. Ramanunni Under The Three At MBIFL'19.

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K. P. Ramanunni (Malayalam: കെ. പി. രാമനുണ്ണി) is a novelist and short-story writer from Kerala, India. His first novel Sufi Paranja Katha (What the Sufi Said) won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995 and the novel Daivathinte Pusthakam (God's Own Book) won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017. Jeevithathinte Pusthakam (Book of Life) won the 2011 Vayalar Award.

Subhash Chandran (born 1972) is a Malayalam novelist, short story writer and journalist best known for the 2010 novel 'Manushyanu Oru Aamukham'. He is one of the most read young writers in contemporary Malayalam literature. His stories "Vadhakramam", "Sanmargam", "Parudeesa Nashtam" and "Guptham" have been adapted into films. He is the only writer to get Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for both his debut story collection (2001) and debut novel (2011). He is also a recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, Odakkuzhal Award and Vayalar Award.

Benyamin (born Benny Daniel in 1971) is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam language from Nhettur, Kulanada, near Pandalam of the south Indian state of Kerala. He lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 1992 to 2013, before returning to Kerala. His works appear regularly in Malayalam publications in Kerala.

Goat Days (Aadujeevitham), his most famous novel, portrays the life of an Indian labourer in Saudi Arabia. It is used as a textbook at Kerala University, Calicut University, Bharathiar University, Pondicherry University and 10th standard for Kerala State syllabus.

Jasmine Days (Juggernaut Books, 2018), translated by Shahnaz Habib won the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, India's richest literary prize. It was originally written in Malayalam and translated by Shahnaz Habib, and is a “brilliant and intense novel”, jury chairperson Vivek Shanbag (author Ghachar Ghochar said while announcing the most expensive literary award in the country. The book tells the story of a young woman Sameera Parvin who moves to a middle eastern city and find herself in the middle of a revolution. It revolves around the Jasmine Revolution that sprang up in December 2010 and was quelled by January 2011.

Source: Wikipedia (26 April 2019)
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