Aswathy Sasikumar is a

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short story writer from

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. Her first short story collection ''Josephinte Manam'' has won the 2017

Yuva Puraskar The Yuva Puraskar (Hindi: युवा पुरस्कार), also known as Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on young writers of outsta ...

and the 2015

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Geetha Hiranyan Endowment. She has also received several other awards including Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer Awardand EP Sushama Ankanam Award.

Biography

Aswathy was born in 1991, in

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, Idukki district the daughter of Sasikumar and Shyamala sasikumar. Her mother Shyamala Sasikumar initially wrote poetry but later stopped writing poetry, entered politics and became the president of the

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Block Panchayath. After some time, the family left Idukki and settled in

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. Aswathy has been writing stories since her school days. ''Josepinte Manam'' (Meaning:The Smell of Joseph) is her first published short story collection. Aswathy is an engineer by profession. She lives with her husband Sunil, an

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officer, in

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Short story collections

*. A collection of 20 short stories, for which she won Yuva Puraskar and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Geetha Hiranyan Endowment. *. *.

Awards and honors

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aswathy, Sasikumar 1991 births Living people Malayalam-language writers Indian women short story writers Malayali people People from Idukki district Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 21st-century Indian short story writers