Key facts
- Born
- 19 February 1970, Sasthamkotta
- State of birth
- Sasthamkotta, Kerala
- Sector
- Literature & writing
- Profession
- Indian writer
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
K. R. Meera is an Indian author and journalist, who writes in Malayalam. She was born in Sasthamkotta, Kunnathur taluk, Kollam district in Kerala. She worked as a journalist in Malayala Manorama but later resigned to concentrate more on writing. She started writing fiction in 2001 and her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002. Since then she has published five collections of short stories, two novellas, five novels and two children's books. She won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her short-story, Ave Maria. Her novel Aarachaar (2012) published by DC Books received several awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (2013), Odakkuzhal Award (2013), Vayalar Award (2014) and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award (2015). It was also shortlisted for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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Timeline
- 1970Born in Sasthamkotta
- 2015Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5