Diary Of A Malayali Madman

By N. Prabhakaran| Jayasree Kalathil

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About the book

A research scholar whose notebook reveals a surreal pig farm …

A psychologist in search of the truth about one of his clients …

An aspiring writer who emulates Gogol …

The unforgettable men and women in N. Prabhakaran’s stories have an uncanny ability to expose the fault lines between the real and the unreal, the normal and the mad, as they explore their own inner worlds and psychic wounds. A pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn, N. Prabhakaran weaves the nitty-gritty of everyday, small-town lives into his stories-all set in northern Kerala-that are steeped in folklore, nature, factional politics and the intricacies of human relationships. Brilliantly translated by Jayasree Kalathil, Diary of a Malayali Madman marks the very first time this major Indian writer’s

work is available in English.

Pages: 272

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

N. Prabhakaran

N. PRABHAKARAN is a major contemporary writer in Kerala and a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn in Malayalam literature. He has published over forty works of novels, poetry, plays, short story collections, essays and a memoir. 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; the Odakkuzhal Award; and the Muttathu Varky Literary Award for Contributions to Malayalam literature. Diary of a Malayali Madman, translated by Jayasree Kalathil, won the 2019 Crossword Book Award.

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Jayasree Kalathil

Jayasree Kalathil is the author of The Sackclothman, a children’s book that has been translated into Malayalam, Hindi and Telugu. She shared the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020 with S. Hareesh for her translation of his novel, Moustache. She is a recipient of the Crossword Book Award for Indian Language Translation and the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Prize. Her translation of Sheela Tomy’s Valli (2022) was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature, the American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award in Prose, and the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book of the Year Award. Originally from Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, Jayasree currently lives in a small village in the New Forest in England.