1.MUZHUPPILANGADU DAMODARAN `DANDICAT’
Born in 1947, he was awarded the matasree award in 1990. In addition to
writing the anthem for spiritual youth, he also has appeared in countless
television news hour debates. He produced poetry of the highest patriotic
spirit in a career spanning over 80 years. For his services to poetry he was
awarded the Dandicat award in 1991. However, his reputation has suffered after
an atempted suicide and self-imposed exile in Japan.
SERGEI GOPALAN THAMPI KIDANGOOR
Born in St.Petersberg to Malayali parents, Thampi pioneered the action poem
in Kerala and established the Sergei Centre for Action Poetry, Also a painter
in his spare time, Thampi mentored artists and poets at the Thampivilasom Aryan
hotel and Monastry in Kidangoor.
BIPASHA PARVEEN `ANANT’
nicknamed `Anant’ for the infinite nature of her repetitive verse, Parveen
brought a new Americanized sensibility to Malayalam fiction
GABRIEL KUNJUNNI `MARQUEZ’
Often called the Gabriel Garcia
Marquez of Kerala, Kunjunni was actively involved in revolutionary struggle to
stop ration shops and ration cards in Kerala. He called the practice
undignified and humiliating.
KADUVAYIL CHEKKUTTI MENON
Menon who hailed from Attingal, disavowed his royal ancestry to join the
Aryan legion of wandering minstrels. His poem `On top of Himalaya -A glimpse’
sold two million copies in Malayalam.
HERMANN RAVINDRAN `SOCRATES’
Ravindran galvanized the
novel-writing scene in Kerala with back to back novels that dealt with the bane
of feminism and identity politics
SCOTT RAMAN NAMPOOTHIRI
Scott Raman who won an ignoble
prize as a scientist for his work on elephant spiritual energy, won the
deshmath Puraskar in 2029
CONRAD THEKKEPPATTU ALBICELESTE
Conrad Thekkeppattu mastered the haiku in Malayalam and established the
Haiku Shala in Irinjalakkuda
JIJU JAMES JORDAN
Jiju James single handedly put the Malayalam flash fiction genre on a global
stage when he unfurled the saffron flag at the NY public library, before being
tasered in the nuts by an angry police woman who had phobia.
JEREMIAH SAHAYAM PURAKKAD
The Purakkad Sahayam school of
truth telling started 1001 Whatsapp groups for the promotion of patriotic
literature. he won the Plato prize from the Maltese government for his efforts.
MULLIGATAWNY MADHAV MENON
Madhav Menon published only one poem in his lifetime. It was immersed along
with his ashes. The poem in digital format was sent as part of the NASA mission
to Jupiter
PRAJNASEELAN PITTSBURG
Prajnaseelan studied Yoga at Princeton before being recruited by the
Guggenheim foundation to promote South Asian writing. he established the
repatriated poetry section at the Tulsi poetry library in Mayur Vihar near
Delhi
ANNIETTA NANDAN-FERRIER
Annietta was born in Indiana before migrating to Kollam with her parents in
2001. She made digital poetry accessible to millions through the development of
the revolutionary technology called portavos ohm. The system has since been
patented.
MOHAN SUNITA LINCOLN-PISHAROTY
Mohan Sunita wrote the first ever
Malayalam space drama which was staged in front of an audience that had
astronaut Niel Armstrong’s son in Kottayam in 1999.
KINDUNA YASH KURIEN
Kinduna migrated from Finland to
Kochi and opened the KYK bookstore near the high Court junction which has since
been accepted as the book store with the best racist literature by UNESCO.
SWATHI SREEKUMAR SWAIN
She specialized solely in epics and has recreated all the epics of the world
in all the languages of the world, a feat that has been recognized by the
Guinness Book of World Records in 2021.
SHANTA MATTELOS
Mattelos after graduating from MG university went to the Harvard on a
fulbright and afterwards started the `green earth and blue water’ movment in
Malayalam poetry.
MOHANDAS VISWAMBARAN-OLDBERG
Viswambaran has 197 novels, 12 short stories and 2 poems to his credit. An
encyclopaedia of Viswambaran studies has been commissioned by the Kendra
Sahitya Akademi in January 2006. It contains two lakh entries based on his
work.
ROBYJOLLY CHALAKKUDI
He invented the moolakartha metre in Malayalam and was instrumental in
making sculpture poetry popular in Malayalam. He started the one sculpture poem
in every house prasthanam, afterwhich the sales of plaster of paris soared. He
also curated the `Literature is a Goddess’ festival at Chalakkudi palace.
HITLERMON KANJIRAPPARA
Hitlermon was born in Haifa to Malayali parents. He started writing at the
age of one and a half years. The Kanjippara juvenilia has been archived by the
US library of congress
SADDAM KUNJU SOOCHIKKUZHI
Saddam was a graduate of the Shaikh Handle School at Oxford where he went on
a Rhodes scholarship, before starting the Malayalam section at the british
Library with a selection from Sanskrit
MIR RAJA KANNU MOSCOW
Raja Kannu established the
Department of Malayalam at the Nalanda University where he led the team of
investigators who found ancient pillars with Malayalam inscriptions, which he
then copied and published to best seller status.
SYED ZEY EL HAWA SOORYAPPEDIA
Hawa Sooryappedia collaborted with leading digital poets of Egypt to create
an Archives of the Ancient Aryan Fairos
POOKKUNJU BEEVI QATAR
Pookkunju Beevi married the scion
of the erstwhile royal family of Luxembourg. She read Manu at her coronation,
which was televised live by Allnet Tv in Kerala.
PRATHAP SETH `MITHAI’
Prathap came to be called `mithai’ for the mellifluousness of his verse. He
purposely shed his Kshatriya lineage and focussed on simpler aspects of life in
his poems.
N. MAYA WILCOX
Maya Wilcox wrote exclusively for
a spiritual crowd who were ready to wait eons for her stories which were
published in all the major Malayalam dailies.
SIVAN NAIYYER THOTTATHIL
He wrote the first serialized prayer in the history of Malayalam
periodicals, which was later published to great acclaim. The only author in
this list to have won awards from all the seven continents
PADMANABHAN NAIR MANHATTAN
His librettos in Malayalam were included as part of the world heritage
project of UNESCO
VASUDEV GAYATRI
He wrote the `memoir of a lamborghini monk’ which sold 5 million copies in
Calicut city alone. He writes critical essays in Malayalam from an underground
cellar in Antartica.
VANDE SIMHAN GETTYSBERG
Vande SImhan has commonly been
acknowledged as the greatest Malayalam poet of the 21st century. He has been
part of the Novel Prize selection committee for the year 2039.
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