Archives: Authors

Sebastian K D is a renowned poet and author currently serving as the secretary of A Ayyappan Poetry Study Center. Along with Malayalam he has penned poetry both in English and Hindi. Sebastian is the author of the works titled Prathishareeram, Iruttipizhinji, Nishabhdhathayile Prakashangal, Choolapothikal and Hridayanivasikal among others. He is the recipient of several noted awards such as the SBT Poetry Award, the Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Memorial Trust Award and the P Bhaskaran Poetry Award and many others. Jalachaayam, a collection of 47 poems, is one among his most recent publications.

Lijeesh Kumar is a noted storyteller and novelist. His works have garnered significant recognition, with one of his stories winning the prestigious K. Saraswathiyamma Award and his novel earning the S.K. Pottekkatt Award. He is the author of the bestseller novel Kanjaav.

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. He 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, which has sold over 60 thousand copies and became a bestseller, Daivathinte Chaaranmar, which has sold over 1.6 lakh copies across the world and been selected as the Book of the Year by Amazon India and Sneham Kamam Branthu are a few of his best-selling works. 

Bindu Amat has been part of KLF since its first edition. She was formerly an Associate Professor of English at Providence Women’s College, Calicut. She is currently active in literary and cultural circles as a speaker and discussant. 

Dr. Jayasree A.K is an author and an acclaimed medical practitioner. She has worked for rights of women, transgender, mentally ill, and sex workers through non- government organisations since 1985. Having published around 40 articles in academic journals, she also writes in popular magazines and has published three books. Ezhukone is her recent publication gaining critical acclaim.

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 more than fifty literary recognitions, both national and international, including the Kerala State Sahitya Academy 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 in three International Festival of Letters – Imphal 2019, Shimla 2022 and New Delhi 2024- hosted by the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. 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. Dr. Arya Gopi currently serves as the Head of English Department at the Kozhikode Zamorin Guruvayurappan College. 

KS Sabarinadhan is a Congress politician and two-time former MLA of the Kerala Assembly. Prior to joining active politics, he worked in the corporate sector and later in the development sector in various projects on health, nutrition and livelihoods. He is a familiar name in Kerala in various issues related to politics, society, economy and arts.