U. K. Kumaran


U. K. Kumaran is a Malayalam-language novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist from Kerala, India. He is a recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and Vayalar Award.

Biography

According to The Hindu, the short story "Chalanam" "is a comprehensive landscape, peopled with characters and nature. Each character should grow and reach a point where they move towards a climax well. You cannot leave them mid-way, unfinished."

Awards

Kumaran has received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Policukarante Penmakkal and Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair Award for Thakshankunnu Swaroopam. Vayalar Award 2016.

Works

Novels

ValayamOridathum EthathavarMulappaalAasakthiEzhuthappettathuOttavaakkil Oru JivitamThakshankunnu SwaroopamKananullathalla Kazhchakkal
  • ''Madutha kali''

Short story collections

Puthiya IrippidangalMadutha KaliPaavam KallanAtayalangal VannukondirikkunnuRail Palathil Oru Kudumbam DhyanikkunnuAchchan UrangunnillaOrale Thedi OraalOttakkoru Stri Odunnathinte Rahasyamenth?Onninum OrakalavumillaVeedu SamsarikkunnuMadhu ShaityamMadhye Ingane Kaanunna NerathMatibhramangalude KaalamKudumba MuseumPolicukaarante PenmakkalTiranjedutha KathakalSancharikkunna GovaniPriyappetta KathakalKannadakalkkappurathValanja Kaalulla KutaDambathya Katha
  • Viraamasandhi

Novelettes

Malarnnu Parakkunna KakkaPrasava WardEllam Kanunna NjanOro Viliyum KaathuKaanaappurangalAddhehamBhoothakaala SancharamA. T. M.Viralatayalangal Illathavarude NagaramPriyappetta NovelettukalDinaratrangalude Ennam
  • ''Sanghaditham''

Others

Gandhiji Oru Bandhu Kaathirukkunnu
  • ''Anubhavam, Orma, Yathra''