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Religion
  
Islam

Residence
  
Nagercoil

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Thoppil Meeran

Spouse(s)
  
Jaleela Meeran


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Born
  
26 September 1944 (age 80) (
1944-09-26
)
Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu

Children
  
Shameem Ahamed, Mirzad Ahamed

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Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (born September 26, 1944) is an Indian Nagercoil based author who writes in Tamil.

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Meeran was awarded the Highest Indian Government award for Poets, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali (The Reclining Chair). He has also received the Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam Award, the Ilakkiya Chintanai Award, and the T N Govt. Award. He has published five novels and six short story collections.

Personal life

Mohamed Meeran was born in Nagercoil. He is also addressed as Thoppil Meeran by his friends and family is married to, Jaleela. They have two children, Shameem Ahamed and Mirzad Ahamed. He hails from a village named Thengai Pattanam which is part of the Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. He is one of the sons of the famous M.O.M Family.

Novels

  • Oru Kadalora Kiramathin Kathai (1988, The Story of Sea Side Village)
  • Turaimugam (1991, Harbour)
  • Koonan Thoppu (1993, The Grove of a Hunchback)
  • Saivu Narkkali (1995, The Reclining Chair)
  • Anju vannam theru (2011, "Five Colours street")

    • Short story collections

  • Anbuku Muthumai Illai
  • Thankarasu(1995)
  • Anathasainam Colony
  • Oru kutty thevin varipadam
  • Thoppil mohammed meeran kathaigal
  • Oru maaamaramum konjam paravaigalum

    • Anthology

  • varekalin pechu

    • Translations

  • Husainul jamal (moin kutty vaither)
  • Theivathin kanne (NP Mohammed)
  • vaikom muhammad basheer valkai varalaru (mona graph) (MN karassery)
  • Thirukottiyur kurunavel (U.A Kader)
  • Meesan karkalin kaval (Pk Parakadavu)

    • Awards

  • Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam (1992)
  • Ilakkiya Chintanai
  • Lilly Devasigamani
  • T N Govt. Award
  • Amuthan adigal Literary award
  • TN Murpokku Ezhuthalar Sangam
  • Sahitya Akademi Award (1997)
  • SRM University Tamil Academy Award 'Pudumaipiththan Creative Literature Award for the best small stories Novels and Drama(2012)'

    • References

    Thoppil Mohamed Meeran Wikipedia
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