Amal Pirappancode

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Amal
Born1987
Pirappancode, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala
OccupationShort story writer, Novelist, and Cartoonist
NationalityIndian
Alma materVisva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Notable worksVyasanasamuchayam, Kalhanan, Keniya San
Notable awards Yuva Puraskar
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Geetha Hiranyan Endowment

Amal Pirappancode is a Malayalam language novelist, short story writer, illustrator, graphic novelist and C cartoonist from Kerala, India. His novel Vyasanasamuchayam has won the 2018 Yuva Puraskar and the Basheer Yuva Prathibha Award. [1] He has also received several other awards including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Geetha Hiranyan Endowment.

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Biography

Amal was born in 1987 to Thenguvila veettil Maniraj and Baby at Pirappancode, Thiruvananthapuram district. [2] He done his education at Pirappancode Government Primary School and Pirappancode Higher Secondary School. [2] From childhood, he was interested in painting. [2] He later became a cartoonist and his cartoons have been published in several magazines. [2] He passed his graduation in painting from Mavelikkara Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts and Post Graduation in Art History from Visva-Bharati Santiniketan, Kolkata. [3] After Post Graduation, He first got teaching job at Government Arts College, Thiruvananthapuram. [3] After 3 years working at Arts college, he lost his job and went into journalism and worked for an online media for some time. [3] Then he joined as art history teacher at Raja Ravi Varma Center of Excellence for Visual Arts, Mavelikkara. [3] He studied Japanese language in Tokyo, Japan. [1]

Family

His wife Kumiko Tanaka is a Japanese woman who studied with him in Kolkata Shantiniketan. [4] One of his brothers Jith Pirappancode is a production controller in the Malayalam film industry, another brother Amith Raj is an assistant-director. [2]

Works

Short stories

Novels

Graphic novels and stories

Cartoon collection

Others

Awards and honors

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