Priya A. S.

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Priya A. S.
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Native name
Priya Anandavalli Sadashivan
Born (1967-05-28) 28 May 1967 (age 56)
Eramalloor, Cherthala, Kerala, India
OccupationWriter
Language Malayalam
Nationality Indian
Alma materE.C.E.K Union High School, Kuthiyathodu
Maharaja's College, Ernakulam
GenreShort story, memoirs, children's literature, translations
Literary movementPost-modern
Notable works
  • Pookkathirikkan Enikkavathille
  • Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran
  • Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu
Notable awards
SpouseUnni
ChildrenTanmoy ( Kunjunni )
Relatives
  • Anandavalli (Mother)
  • Sadashivan Nair (Father)

Priya A. S. is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. She writes short stories, children's literature, translations and memoirs. [1] She has translated Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things into Malayalam under the title Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran of which Roy herself has said that although there have been translations in several languages, no other translation is as important to her as this, as it is the language of the novel's central characters. [2] She is a three-time recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.

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Biography

Priya A. S. was born on May 28, 1967, at Eramalloor, near Cherthala, in Alappuzha district of the south Indian state of Kerala to a teacher couple, K. R. Sadashivan Nair and Anandavalli. [3] She had a difficult childhood due to various diseases, [4] [5] and after schooling, she graduated in English literature from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam before securing a master's degree by private education. [6] She has served at Mahatma Gandhi University and is a senior grade assistant at Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Priya is married to Unni and they have a son, Tanmoy alias Kunjunni. [7]

Bibliography

Short story anthologies

Translations

Children's literature

Memoirs

Awards

Manjamarangal Chuttilum, a short story anthology, fetched Priya her first major award, Lalithambika Anterjanam Award for the best young woman writer in 2003. [8] Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected Jagarooka, another of her short story anthology, for their annual award for story in 2004 [9] and a decade later, the Sahitya Akademi honoured her with the 2014 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran, the translation of The God of Small Things; [10] in between she received the Siddhartha Literary Award in 2012 for her work for children, Ammem Kunjunneem Kunjunneem Ammem. She received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature twice, in 2006 for her collection Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu, and in 2010 for her collection Perumazhayathe Kunjithalukal. [11] [12] She has won a host of other honours such as State Bank of India Literary Award, V. K. Unnikrishnan Award for Translation, Grihalakshmi Award, Ankanam Sahitya Award and Ramu Kariat Award. [5] She received Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2023 for her novel Perumazhayathe Kunjithalukal. [13]

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