Name Muttathu Varkey Role Novelist | Died May 28, 1989 | |
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Movies Poonthenaruvi, Mahanagaram, Chithramela Similar People Thoppil Bhasi, Adoor Bhasi, J Sasikumar, Thilakan, T K Rajeev Kumar | ||
American malayali teleconference on muttathu varkey on his 100th birth anniversary
Muttathu Varkey (Malayalam: മുട്ടത്തുവര്ക്കി) (28 April 1913 - 28 May 1989) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet from Kerala state, South India. Varkey was an exponent of a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature.
Contents
- American malayali teleconference on muttathu varkey on his 100th birth anniversary
- Documentary muttathu varkey
- Life
- Literary career
- Selected works
- Muttathu Varkey Award
- References
Documentary muttathu varkey
Life
Varkey was born in Chethipuzha, a small village near Changanassery in Kottayam district, Kerala. He began his career as a school teacher at Saint Berchmans High School, Changanassery. He then took up the job of an accountant in a timber factory. For a brief period, Varkey taught in a Tutorial College run by M. P. Paul. He then joined Deepika newspaper as an associated editor and remained there for next 26 years until his retirement in 1974.
Literary career
Muttathu Varkey emerged as one of the popular writers of Malayalam fiction. He along with Kanam EJ was prominent in popularizing a genre of sentiment-filled pulp fiction known as painkili novel in Malayalam literature. He was a prolific writer and has penned a total of 132 books, including 65 novels. The rest of his works include collections of short stories, plays, and poetry. Many of his novels were adapted into Malayalam films, including the Prem Nazir starrer Padatha Painkili (1957), Inapravukal (1965), Velutha Kathreena (1968), and Mayiladum Kunnu (1972) and the Sathyan starrer Karakanakadal (1971) and Akkarapacha (1972).
Selected works
Muttathu Varkey Award
Muttathu Varkey Foundation has instituted the Muttathu Varkey Award to be presented yearly to Malayalm writers. The winner is selected by popular vote with final decisions made by prominent judges. The prominent winners of the award include, O. V. Vijayan (1992), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1993), M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1994), Kovilan (1995), Kakkanadan (1996), VKN (1997), M. Mukundan (1998), Punathil Kunhabdulla (1999), Anand (2000), N. P. Mohammed (2001), Ponkunnam Varkey (2002), Sethu (2003), C. Radhakrishnan (2004), Zacharia (2005), Kamala Surayya (2006), T. Padmanabhan (2007), M. Sukumaran (2008), N.S. Madhavan (2009), P. Valsala (2010), Sarah Joseph (2011), N Prabhakaran (2012) and C. V. Balakrishnan (2013)