Archives: Authors

Vinil Paul is an author, a passionate educator and researcher, committed to examining the intricate social and cultural transformations that have shaped Kerala’s history. Dr. Vinila Paul is an Assistant Professor of History at Fatima Mata National College, Kollam. His research spans a wide array of topics, including slavery, Protestant Christian missionary movements, Dalit Christian histories, colonial hunting practices, agricultural labourers and global history. His notable works include Adima Keralathinte Adrushya Charithram, Mrugaya: Keralathinte Nayattucharithram and Dalit Charithradamshanam.

Hrishikeshan PB is a well-known author and translator. He has translated poems from Marathi and many other Indian Languages into Malayalam and his works have also been translated into English, Hindi and Marathi. His works have attained him many acclaimed accolades such as the Changampuzha Award for poetry, the Abu-Dhabi Sakti Award and Moodadi Damodaran Award among Kanathavunnavar, Pathi Polliyoraksharam and Kannadipuzha are some among his publications. He retired from professional service as the Scientific Officer at the Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai.

Joseph K Jose, known popularly as Joseph Annamkutty Jose, is a popular author, influencer and radio personality. Known for his engaging talks, he has also conducted more than 150 talk shows around the world. In 2022, he was chosen as one of the Cultural Brand Ambassadors of India by the Ministry of Culture. He is also the only person from India who got selected to attend the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) by the US State Government. And was also selected as the Best Radio Jockey (RJ) at the 2021 Creative Radio Awards. He currently hosts Stories with Joseph Annamkutty Jose in Radio Mirchi. Buried Thoughts, over 60 thousand copies of which were sold and was a bestseller, Daivathinte Chaaranmar, which has sold over 1.6 lakh copies across the world and was selected as the Book of the Year by Amazon India and Sneham Kamam Branthu are a few of his best-selling works. 

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. 

Arya Gopi is an acclaimed bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam. A contributor to major Malayalam journals, she has won over fifty literary recognitions, both national and international, including the Kerala State Sahitya Academy’s Kanakasree Award and the Sharjah International Book Festival Translation Grant. She is an executive committee member of the Malayalam Mission under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Government of Kerala. She has represented the Malayalam language at three International Festivals of Letters, hosted by the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi: Imphal 2019, Shimla 2022, and New Delhi 2024. Her poems were translated into Hindi, English, Kannada, and Bengali. Her English poems have appeared in Muse India Journal, Teesta Review, Modern Literature International Journal, The Usawa Literary Review, Kavishala Magazine, Indian Literature, Malayalam Literary Survey, and elsewhere. Malakha Matsyam, Avasanathe Manushyan, Kannadiyile Daivam, Sob of Strings, and One Hundred lines of Discord are some of her most noted works. Arya Gopi currently serves as the Head of the English Department at the Kozhikode Zamorin Guruvayurappan College. 

Subhash Ottumpuram is a well-known author of Malayalam short stories. A contributor to children’s literature as well, he writes for several contemporary publications. His major short story collections include Prathivisham, Ore Kadalile Kappalukal and Thirich Kittiya Puzhakal. Kadappurathe Kavothi, Ekanthanavikal, Neelanirathilulla Manathu Kanni and Ravanante Meesha are a few of his notable works of children’s literature.

Dr. Nikhilesh Menon is a renowned author, director and medical practitioner. He has published four research papers and directed two short films. Pradhamadrishtya, Agocharam, Hananam and Prathikriya are the novels penned by him. Dr. Nikhilesh Menon currently serves as an Assistant Surgeon as well as the Nodal Officer for Strengthening Lab Systems of the Kerala Health and Family Welfare Department. Prima Facie, a domestic thriller, is his most recent publication.