M R Vishnu Prasad

M R Vishnu Prasad is a renowned Malayalam poet and performance artist. With three anthologies to his credit, he has been writing poetry in Malayalam.  He is the recipient of the 2008 Deshabhimani IV DAS Poetry Award, the 2014 SBT Literary Award and the 2023 Guru Gopalakrishna Poetry Award. Vishnuprasad’s first novel, Matthiyas, won second place in the 2024 DC Golden Jubilee Fiction Competition. Situating his art as a synthesis of writing and performance poetry through oral, textual and digital mediations, he uses a range of experiments in his practice such as Lecture Performance, Videopoetry, and Text Making. His video installations and performances have been featured in the Vienna Angawandte Interdisciplinary Lab, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and other national and international platforms as well as in several Indian Art Galleries. Rithukkalum Sreebuddhanum, Aanirachi and Attampattu are his published collections of poetry.