Literature written in Malayalam language. Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Malayalam ( ) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. ...

Art

Nātyakalpadrumam Theatrical Study by Padma Shri Guru Māni Mādhava Chākyār

Nātyakalpadrumam ( നാട്യകല്‍‌പദ്രുമം in Malayalam ) is a book written by Nātyāchārya Vidūshakaratnam Padma Shri Guru Māni Mādhava Chākyār about all aspects of ancient Sanskrit drama theatre of Kerala- Koodiyattam. ... Padma Shri (also spelt Padma Shree, Padmashree, Padma Sree and Padma Sri) is an award given by the Government of India generally to Indian citizens to recognize their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the Arts, Education, Industry, Literature, Science, Sports, Social Service and public life. ... Nātyāchārya Vidūshakaratnam Padma Shri Māni Mādhava Chākyār ( 1899 - 1990 ) Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar ( Māni Mādhava Chākyār ) ( 15 February 1899 - 14 January 1990) was a performance artist and Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, South India, considered to be the greatest...

Poetry

Manipravalam

Champoos

Sandesakavyam

Niranam poets

Cherusseri Namboothiri

Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan

Poonthanam Namboothiri

Arnos Paathiri (1681-1732)

Kottayathu Thampuran

Unnayi Warrier

Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770)

Irayimman Thampi

Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran

Kattakayam Cherian Mappila (1859-1936)

K. C. Kesava Pillai (1868-1914)

Kumaran Asan (1873-1924)

Ulloor Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949)

Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958)

Modern Romantics

Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair (1883-1959)

Nalappat Narayana Menon (1887-1955)

G. Sankara Kurup (1900-1978)

Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909-1936)

Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948)

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911-1985)

Other modern poets

Vayalar Ramavarma

Edasseri Govindan Nair

K. Ayyappa Panicker

M. Govindan

O. N. V. Kurup

N. N. Kakkad

Attoor Ravi Varma

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

Madhavan Ayyappath

M. N. Paloor

Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan

Satchidanandan

Sugathakumari

Lalitha Lenin

Venu .V. Desom

Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri

D. Vinayachandran

Balachandran Chullikkadu

A. Ayyappan

Desamangalam Ramakrishnan

Nellikkal Muraleedharan

Post-modern poets

Anvar Ali

Anitha Thampi

A. C. Sreehari

K. R. Tony

Manoj Kuroor

Mohanakrishnan Kaladi

M. B. Manoj

O.P.Suresh

Pavithran Theekkuni

P. Raman

P. A. Nasimudin

P. P. Ramachandran

Rose Mary

Roopesh Paul

Rafeeq Ahammad

S. Joseph

Sebastian (kodungalloor)

T. P. Rajeevan

V. M. Girija

Veerankutty

While the Pattu school flourished among certain sections of the society, the literature of the elite was composed in the curious mixture of Sanskrit and Malayalam which is referred to as Manipravalam, mani meaning ruby (Malayalam) and pravalam meaning coral (Sanskrit). ... Niranam is a small village in Southern Kerala in India near Mannar town. ... Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan Malayalam തുഞ്ചത്തു് എഴുത്തച്ഛന്‍ (commonly known as Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan) is considered as the Father of the Malayalam language. ... Johann Ernest Hanxleden (b. ... Unnayi Warrier is a renowned writer who lived in Kerala about three hundred years ago. ... Kunjan Nambiar was a Malayalam poet. ... Omana thinkal Kidavo was composed for the young prince Swathi Thirunal of the erstwhile state of Travancore (southern region of present Kerala State) by the famous poet lyricist Ravi Varman Thampi (1783-1856 AD), popularly known as Irayimman Thampi. ... Kerala Varma Valia Koithampuran was born in Changanacherry at the Laxmipuram Palace in the royal family of Changanacherry. ... Kattakayam Cherian Mappila (1859-1936)[1] was the first Christian poet of Kerala. ... KFP 10:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... N. Kumaran Asan (also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan, the name prefix Mahakavi(Awarded by Madras University in the Year 1922) meaning great poet and the suffix Asan meaning scholar or teacher) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher and social reformer. ... Vallathol Narayana Menon Vallathol Narayana Menon (in Malayalam വള്ളത്തോള്‍ നാരായാണ മേനോന്) popularly known as Vallathol, was one of the famous triumvirate poets of Kerala. ... G Sankara Kurup From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948) was a writer of Malayalam poetry. ... Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911 - 1985) was a prominent Malayalam poet. ... Vayalar Ramavarma (March 15, 1928 - October 27, 1975) was a modern Malayalam poet and lyricist. ... Born on 23rd December, 1906, Edasseri Govindan Nair is the leading light of modern Malayalam Poetry. ... Dr. K. Ayyappa Panicker (September 12, 1930 in Kavalam near Alappuzha - August 23, 2006 in Thiruvananthapuram) was a Malayalam poet, critic and a scholar. ... N V Kurup born on May 27, 1931 at Chavara , a coastal village in Kerala is one of the greatest poets Kerala has seen. ... Attoor Ravi Varma is a Malayalam poet who has won the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award for his contributions to literary world. ... Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan (), who is popularly known as Kadammanitta was born on March 22nd 1935 in Kadammanitta province of the present Pathanamthitta district, Kerala. ... K. Satchidanandan (born May 28, 1946) is a well-known Malayalam poet, whose works bring subtle poetic verses to a contemporary political context. ... Sugathakumari is an Indian poet - activist, born in 1934, who has been at the forefront of environmental and feminist movements in Kerala, South India. ... Lalitha Lenin (Malayalam: ലളിത ലെനിന്‍; born July 17, 1946), Thrithalloor, Thrissur district) is a renowned poet in Malayalam. ... Venu . ... D. Vinayachandran os a well-known Indian Malayalam poet. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nellikkal Muraleedharan is a noted writer poet in Malayalam. ... Anvar Ali (born1966) is a remarkable name in the post modern period of Malayalam poetry. ... Anitha Thampi (born 1968) is one of the well-known poets in post modern Malayalam literature. ... A. C. Sreehari (born 1970) is a poet Malayalam literature. ... K. R. Tony (born 1964) is one of the famous poets in contemporary Malayalam literature. ... Manoj Kuroor(born 1971) is a notable poet of contemporary Malayalam literature. ... P. Raman (born 1972) is one of the most renowned malayalam poets of postmodern period. ... P. P. Ramachandran is one of the renowned Malayalam poets in the postmodern epoch. ... S. Joseph (b. ... Thachom Poyil Rajeevan (born 1959, Paleri in Calicut, Kerala, India) is a poet and literary reviewer in Kerala, a southern state in India. ... V. M. Girija (born 1961) is one of the most notable women writers of Kerala. ...

Fiction

Nineteenth century

O. Chandhu Menon (1847-1900)

C. V. Raman Pillai (1858-1922)

Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar

Modern

Karur Neelakanta Pillai (1898-1974)

P. Kesava Dev (1904-1983)

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994)

• Baalyakaalasakhi
• Premalekhanam

Ponkunnam Varkey (1908-2004)

S. K. Pottekkatt (1913-1982)

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1914 -1999)

Uroob (1915-1979)

Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909-1987)

Malayatoor Ramakrishnan (1927-1997)

K. Saraswathi Amma (1919-1974)

P. K. Balakrishnan (1926-1991)

V. K. N. (1932-2004)

O. V. Vijayan (1930-2005)

Leela Devi

M. Mukundan

P. Padmarajan (1945-1991)

Zacharia

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

T. Padmanabhan

Madhavikkutti (Kamala Das)

Anand

Methil Radhakrishnan

N. S. Madhavan

N. P. Mohammed

Kovilan

M. P. Narayana Pillai

Sara Joseph

B.M.Suhara

E. Harikumar

C. Radhakrishnan

K. Surendran

K.L.Mohanavarma

T.V. Varkey

Joseph Ayranikudy (1935-2001)

Elcy Yohannan Sankarathil

Fr. Thomas Kuzhinapurath (1969 -)Was born at Omalloor in Pathanamthitta Destrict. He Published more than 30 articles in English and Malyalam. He was the student chief Editor of the philosophical Journal "Mathavum Chinthayum". The University of Kerala has selected for the Pre-Degree syllabus (Bhasha Thilakam - 1998) one of his articles which he had written at the age of 22.He completed the Doctoral Research in 2002 in Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO), Rome. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (b. ... Baalyakaalasakhi (Childhood Companion), a Malayalam novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer is tale of tragic love. ... Premalekhanam (The Love Letter) is Vaikom Muhammad Basheers first work (1943) to be published as a book. ... Sankaran Kutty Pottekkat (born March 14, 1913, died August 6, 1982) was a well-renowned author from Kerala state of south India, whose work Oru Desattinte Katha (The Story of a Land) fetched him the Jnanpith Award in 1980. ... [[ == thakazhi siva sankara pilla was a famous novelist in malayalam literature. ... Uroob (original name: P C Kuttikrishnan)along with writers like Vaikom Mohammed Basheer , Thakazhi, Kesavadev, Pottekat formed the progressive writers in Malayalam during the twentieth century. ... Lalitambika Antarjanam (b. ... K. Saraswathi Amma (1919 – 1975) is a Malayalam, feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologized in translation in several American texts. ... 59. ... V. K. N. (Vadakkke Koottala Narayanankutti Nair) (1932-2004) was a Malayalam novelist. ... Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (July 2, 1930-March 30, 2005) was an Indian author and cartoonist, an important figure in modern Malayalam literature. ... Dr. R. Leela Devi was an Indian writer, translator, and teacher. ... M Mukundan is one of the pioneers of modernity in Malayalam literature. ... P. Padmarajan (b. ... Paul Zacharia is an eminent Malayalam Short story writer, Novelist and essayist. ... MT Vasudevan Nair M. T. Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT, is a Malayalam author, screenplay writer and film director. ... ... Kamala Suraiya, better known as Kamala Das, is a well-known female Indian writer writing in English as well as Malayalam, her native language. ... Anand is a well-known writer in Malayalam who is one of the most eminent intellectuals in Kerala today challenging various forms of religious fundamentalisms. ... N S Madhavan is a writer of fiction in Malayalam. ... Kandanisseri Vattomparambil Velappan Ayyappan (born July 9, 1923), better known as Kovilan, is a Malayalam novelist. ... E. Harikumar is a Malayalam novelist and short story writer. ... This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. ... Joseph Ayranikudy was an Indian poet. ...

Post-modern fiction

B. Murali

E. Santhosh Kumar

G. R. Indugopan

Indu Menon

K. Rekha

K. R. Meera

Manoj Jathavedaru

Santhosh Echikkanam

Sithara. S

Unni R.

Sriraj Namboothiri A.K

Adarsh Anchal

Children's literature

Sumangala

Sippy Pallipuram

Sooranadu Ravi

"Mali" Madhavan Nair

Nandanar (P. C. Gopalan)

Venuvariath( K. R. venugopal)

savi s Anand(saveen.s.s)

G.R.Indugopan, is a noted young writer in Malayalam literature who has written nine books, mostly novels. ... Sumangala is the pen-name of Leela Nambudripad, a popular author of childrens literature in Malayalam. ...

Literary criticism

A. R. Rajaraja Varma (1863–1918)

Dr.M.M.Basheer

Joseph Mundasseri (1901–1977)

K. P. Appan

Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960)

Kuttikrishna Marar (1900–1973)

M. Krishnan Nair

M.N. Vijayan

K.E.N.Kunhahammed]

M. P. Paul (1904–1952)

Prof. K. Gopalakrishnan

Ronald E. Asher

Sukumar Azhikode

V. C. Sreejan

Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar

Joseph Mundassery (b. ... K.P.Appan is a renowned literary critic in Malayalam. ... Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889 - 1960), was a prominent Malayalam literary critic. ... Kuttikrishna Marar is one of the best essayists of the time. ... M. Krishnan Nair can refer to: M. Krishnan Nair (November 2, 1928–May 11, 2001) director of about 100 Malayalam films. ... M.N. Vijayan (also known as Vijayan Mash) (born 8 June 1930, Lokamaleshwaram, Kerala, India) is an Indian writer, speaker and academic. ... M. P. Paul (b. ... Professor K. Gopalakrishnan is an eminent Indian researcher and critic. ... Dr. Sukumar Azhikode Dr. Sukumar Azhikode (b. ... V. C. Sreejan is a literary critic writing mainly in Malayalam. ... Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar (1861- 14th November 1914) was a reknowned malayali journalist, essay writer, critic and short story writer, one of the pioneers in these fields in Kerala. ...

Others

Jyesthadevan

Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert

Kottarathil Sankunni

Jyesthadevan (c. ... Dr. Herman Gundert Rev. ... Kottarathil Sankunni is a well known author of Malayalam literature, born on 1855. ...

See also

• Indian literature
• List of Malayalam poets
• Malayalam Literary Awards

Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. ... Below is the list of: poets of Indian Origin poets born in India poets from other regions of the world who are masters of poetry in Indian languages. ...

External links

• Information on Malayalam Literature at Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala
• The first Malayalam literature based online web forum
• One Hundred Years of Malayalam Literature: A Brief Survey
• Puzha.com -The First Online Malayalam Literary Magazine