N Prabhakaran is a major contemporary writer in Kerala and is considered a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn in Malayalam literature.
She was selected as one of the two translators-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, in 2023..
She is the author of the children\'s book The Sackclothman , which has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi.
Her latest translation, Sheela Tomy\'s Valli , was shortlisted for the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature and for the Atta Galatta-BLF Book Prize.
Prabhakaran\'s Diary of a Malayali Madman in 2019).
Hareesh\'s Moustache in 2020) and the Crossword Book Award (for N.
Jayasree Kalathil\'s translations have won the JCB Prize for Literature (for S.
His latest novel, Mayamanushyar , won the Odakkuzhal Award in 2020.
Diary of a Malayali Madman , translated by Jayasree Kalathil, won the 2019 Crossword Book Award.
He is the recipient of several honours including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award; the EMS Memorial Trust Award; the Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Memorial Trust award; the Malayatoor Award; and the Muttathu Varky Literary Award for Contributions to Malayalam literature.
He has published over forty works of novels, poetry, plays, short story collections, essays and a memoir.
N Prabhakaran is a major contemporary writer in Kerala and is considered a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn in Malayalam literature
