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കഥകൾ മലയാറ്റൂർ | Kadhakal Malayattoor
മലയാള കഥാസാഹിത്യചരിത്രത്തിൽ അനിഷേയമായൊരു സ്ഥാനം നേടിയെടുത്ത മലയാറ്റൂർ രാമകൃഷ്ണന്റെ എറ്റവും മികച്ച കഥകളുടെ സമാഹാരം.
389 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2015
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About the author
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
38 books159 followersMalayattoor Ramakrishnan was born on 30 May 1927 as K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer in Kalpathi in Palakkad (Palghat) in a family of Kerala Iyers.
After earning the B.L. degree he started his career as an Advocate.Later he started his work as a sub-editor in The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. He was a contributing cartoonist to Shankar's Weekly. He is also credited with the first Malayalam translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula apart from translating Sherlock Holmes novels into Malayalam.
In 1957, he entered the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).The memoirs of his long career as a bureaucrat are narrated in his work Service Story – Ente IAS Dinangal.
alayattoor wrote his best known work - Verukal (Roots) in 1965. It is a semi-autobiographical work which tells the story of a family of Tamil speaking Iyers who settled in Kerala. This won him the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award.[1] In 1981, he resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in order to devote his time to writing. It was during the period 1981 to 1997 that his most famous works emerged from his pen. Among his other famous novels are Yakshi, Yanthram, Nettoor Mathom and Amritham Thedi. For Yanthram, he was awarded the Vayalar Award.
After earning the B.L. degree he started his career as an Advocate.Later he started his work as a sub-editor in The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. He was a contributing cartoonist to Shankar's Weekly. He is also credited with the first Malayalam translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula apart from translating Sherlock Holmes novels into Malayalam.
In 1957, he entered the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).The memoirs of his long career as a bureaucrat are narrated in his work Service Story – Ente IAS Dinangal.
alayattoor wrote his best known work - Verukal (Roots) in 1965. It is a semi-autobiographical work which tells the story of a family of Tamil speaking Iyers who settled in Kerala. This won him the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award.[1] In 1981, he resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in order to devote his time to writing. It was during the period 1981 to 1997 that his most famous works emerged from his pen. Among his other famous novels are Yakshi, Yanthram, Nettoor Mathom and Amritham Thedi. For Yanthram, he was awarded the Vayalar Award.
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February 22, 2017
മലയാറ്റൂരിൻെറ അറുപത് ചെറുകഥകൾ. ഗംഭീരം!!
October 21, 2025
Despite an occasional propensity for flippancy and cynicism, this author demonstrates remarkable prescience and profound social engineering acumen. The sexagenary collection of narratives evinces extraordinary artistic virtuosity and innovative literary craftsmanship. One might justifiably marvel that the very author of "Verukkal" possesses the literary dexterity to deliver such eloquently wrought, humour-infused compositions that shimmer with both wit and philosophical depth.
July 31, 2018
One of the best Malayalam short stories collections
March 26, 2019
One of the best books of this author
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