Malayalam author Hareesh baggage Vayalar award for his novel ‘Meesha’
By PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Well-known Malayalam author S Hareesh has bagged the forty sixth Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literary Award for his novel “Meesha”.
The prestigious award, instituted by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust, contains a money prize value Rs 1 lakh, a sculpture designed by famend sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman and a quotation, the organisers mentioned right here on Saturday. It was chosen for the popularity by an skilled panel comprising writers together with Sarah Joseph, and V Ramankutty.
The award can be offered to the author in a perform to be held right here on October 27, the Trust representatives added.
Published by DC Books, the novel revolves across the lives of poor and oppressed individuals in Kuttanad area of the southern state.
The e book, translated into English as “Moustache”, had earlier bagged the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award and the JCB Prize for Literature 2020.
Hareesh needed to withdraw the serialization of the novel after publishing simply three chapters within the ‘Mathrubhumi’ Weekly following assaults in opposition to him and his household, allegedly by a gaggle of pro-Hindutva activists, on social media, in 2018.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Well-known Malayalam author S Hareesh has bagged the forty sixth Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literary Award for his novel “Meesha”.
The prestigious award, instituted by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust, contains a money prize value Rs 1 lakh, a sculpture designed by famend sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman and a quotation, the organisers mentioned right here on Saturday. It was chosen for the popularity by an skilled panel comprising writers together with Sarah Joseph, and V Ramankutty.
The award can be offered to the author in a perform to be held right here on October 27, the Trust representatives added.
Published by DC Books, the novel revolves across the lives of poor and oppressed individuals in Kuttanad area of the southern state.
The e book, translated into English as “Moustache”, had earlier bagged the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award and the JCB Prize for Literature 2020.
Hareesh needed to withdraw the serialization of the novel after publishing simply three chapters within the ‘Mathrubhumi’ Weekly following assaults in opposition to him and his household, allegedly by a gaggle of pro-Hindutva activists, on social media, in 2018.
