Malayalam literature

Poetry

Manipravalam[?]

Champoos[?]

Sandesakavyam[?]

Niranam poets[?]

Cherusseri Namboodiri[?]

Thunchathu Ezhuthachan[?]

Poonthanam Namboodiri[?]

Kottayam Thampuran[?]

Unnayi Warrier[?]

Kunchan Nambiar[?] (1705-1770)

Irayimman Thampi[?]

Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran[?]

K C Kesava Pillai[?] (1868-1914)

Kumaran Asan[?] (1873-1924)

Ulloor Parameswara Iyer[?] (1877-1949)

Vallathol Narayana Menon[?] (1878-1958)

Modern Romantics

Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair[?] (1883-1959)

Nalappat Narayana Menon[?] (1887-1955)

G Sankara Kurup[?] (1900-1978)

Balamani Amma[?]

Edappalli Raghavan Pillai[?] (1909-1936)

Changampuzha Krishna Pillai[?] (1911-1948)

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon[?] (1911-1985)

Other Modern Poets

Balachandran Chullikkadu[?]

Edasseri Govindan Nair[?]

Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan

O N V Kurup[?]

Satchidanandan

Sugathakumari[?]

Vayalar Ramavarma

Vishnunarayanan Namboodiri[?]

Fiction 19th Century

O Chandhu Menon[?] (1847-1900)

C V Raman Pillai[?] (1858-1922)

Modern

Karur Neelakanta Pillai[?] (1898-1974)

P Kesava Dev[?] (1904-1983)

Ponkunnam Varkey[?] (b.1908)

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1912-1994)

S K Pottakkat[?] (1913-1982)

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai[?] (1914 -1999)

P C Kutikrishnan[?] (1915-1979)

Lalithambika Antharjanam[?] (1909-1987)

K Saraswathi Amma[?] (1919-1974)

Kamaladas[?]

O V Vijayan[?]

Mukundan[?]

M T Vasudevan Nair[?]

Literary Criticism

A R Rajaraja Varma[?] (1863-1918)

A.Balakrishana Pillai[?] (1889-1960)

Joseph Mundasseri[?] (1901-1977)

Kuttikrishna Marar[?] (1900-1973)

Sukumar Azhikkod[?]

External Links

• Information on Malayalam Literature at Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala (http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/prd2/mala/liter.htm)

• One Hundred Years of Malayalam Literature: A Brief Survey (http://www.shelterbelt.com/KJ/malayalasahityam)