Priya A S

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Native name പ്രിയ എ. എസ്. Spouse Unni Nair Nationality Indian		Language Malayalam Occupation Writer Name Priya S.

Alma mater E.C.E.K Union High School, Kuthiyathodu Maharaja's College, Ernakulam Education Maharaja's College, Ernakulam

Priya A. S. is a Malayalam-language writer from Kerala state, India. She is currently working as Senior Grade Assistant at Cochin University of Science and Technology. Her oeuvre consists of short stories, children's literature and memoirs. She has also translated Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things into Malayalam under the title Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran. 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.

Short story collections

Pookkaathirikkanenikkavathille[1]

Ororo Thirivukal

Manjamarangal Chuttilum

Jagarooka

Priya A. S.-inte Kathakal

Violet Poochakalku Soo Vaikaan Thonnumpol

Translations

Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran (Malayalam translation of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Janmantharavagdangal (Malayalam translation of Jaishree Misra's Ancient Promises)

Children's literature

Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu

Kathakatha Painkili

Ammem Kunjunnim Kunjunnim Ammem

Ammem Kunjunnim Mookkurummi Mookkurummi

Memoirs

Ozhukkil Orila

Katha Bakki

Mayakazhchakal

Awards

Lalithambika Anterjanam Award (2003)

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story (2004) - Jagarooka

Siddhartha Foundation Award for Children's Literature (2012) - Ammem Kunjunnim Kunjunnim Ammem

Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation (2014) - Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran

Ankanam Sahitya Award

S.B.I. Award

V. K. Unnikrishnan Award for Translation

Grihalakshmi Award

Sree Padmanabhaswamy Award (Kerala Sahitya Akademi Endowment for Children's Literature) - Chithrasalabhangalude Veedu

References

Priya A. S. Wikipedia

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