M. M. Basheer is a Malayalam literary critic who has written more than forty critical works on Malayalam poetry, short stories and novels. He has also been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award Fellowship of 2022.

Life

M M Basheer was set to write a series of newspaper columns on the Ramayana in the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi from August. Basheer’s series on Ramayana has been a regular feature during the Malayalam month of Karkidakam which is observed as ‘Ramayana month’. His work ''Thiricharivukal'' received the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award for Literary Criticism (Thayat Award) in 2014. In 2022, he received the

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is an honour of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy), given to writers of Malayalam literature by inducting them as the distinguished members of the Akademi. References External links * ...

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Writers from Kozhikode Malayalam literary critics Academic staff of the University of Calicut Indian male short story writers Malayalam-language writers 21st-century Indian short story writers 21st-century Indian male writers Recipients of the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award {{Kerala-stub