Awards & Winners

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Date of Birth 21-January-1908
Place of Birth Thalayolaparambu
(India, Kerala, Kottayam district)
Nationality India
Profession Novelist
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a Malayalam fiction writer from the state of Kerala in India. He was a humanist, freedom fighter, novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his path-breaking, disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well as the common man. He is regarded as one of the most successful and outstanding writers from India. Translations of his works into other languages have won him worldwide acclaim. His notable works include Balyakalasakhi, Shabdangal, Pathummayude Aadu, Mathilukal, Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu, Janmadinam and Anargha Nimisham. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1982. He is fondly remembered as the Beypore Sultan.

Awards by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.

1989


Kerala State Film Award for Best Story
Honored for : Mathilukal