Maythil Radhakrishnan

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Maythil Radhakrishnan, popularly known as Maythil (Malayalam മേതില്‍ രാധകൃഷ്ണന്‍), born on 24 July 1944 in Palakkad, Kerala is an important fiction writer in Malayalam.

1 Brief Biograpphy
2 Writing
3 Books
4 External Links
5 Notes

[edit] Brief Biograpphy

Maythil did his graduation in Economics from Kerala University in 1968. For the next eight years, he taught himself entomology, while working as a freelance journalist. From 1976 to 1984 he worked in Kuwait for a shipping firm in Data Processing department. For the next three years, he ran his own Computer Aided Design and Drafting Center in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Since 1987, except for a four year stint as Editor, Youth Express of The New Indian Express (then The Indian Express) group, at Trivandrum and Chennai, Maythil has spent his time mostly in writing; on occasions working as a freelance journalist, quizmaster and a web developer. He writes a widely read column called മൂന്നുവര Three Lines in the Malayalam Weekly, Madhyamam. He lives in Chennai.He is married and has two daughters.

[edit] Writing

Maythil's first novel, Sooryavamsam, published in 1970, announced the arrival of a major talent in Malayalam literature. Four novels and many stories and poems later, his is still a fresh voice. His oeuvre reflects the whole gamut of unrelated experience -- from computers to insects -- that he had acquired. Essence of his writing is summed up by Professor K Satchidanandan in the following words:

There are very few in Indian fiction who can compare with this author in artistic innovation, intellectual subtlety and original perception of things and of life. The three novellas here represent all that is newest in Indian fiction.^[1]