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Kamala DAS OR Kamala Surayya
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala, March 31, 1934-May 31, 2009), the pen name Madhavikutty also him once and Kamala DAS is known by, an Indian English poet and litterateur and at the same time, a Kerala, India's leading Malayalam author. In Kerala, its popularity is based on his short stories and an autobiography, while mainly English in her work, written under the name Kamala DAS, is noted for poems and biography.
His open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, with the power of her written communication, but it is marked as an idol in his generation. 31 May 2009, aged 75, he died in a hospital in Pune. DAS has earned considerable respect in recent years.
Early life
Caterpillar Punnayurkulam, Thrissur district in Kerala was born March 31, 1934, the VM Nair, widely circulated Malayalam daily is a former managing editor of the motherland, and Nalapat Balamani Amma, a famous malayali poet to.
The Calcutta, where her father is a Senior Executive of Walford transport company that Bentley and Rolls Royce automobiles sold, and Nalapat in Punnayurkulam ancestral home was appointed as spent his childhood between.
Balamani Amma, like her mother, Kamala DAS also excelled in writing. His love of poetry at an early age her great uncle, Nalapat Narayana Menon, through the influence of a major writer in 1969.
At the age of 15 years, the bank officer Madhav DAS to encourage her writing interests got married, and that writing and publishing in English and started both in Malayalam. In the early 1960s was a tumultuous time for the arts in Kolkata, and Kamala DAS was one of the many voices that came up and a generation of English poets, as well as the cult began to appear in anthologies. [3]
Literary career
Her many Malayalam short stories as well as many poems written in English was noted for. DAS was also a syndicated columnist. He once claimed that "poetry in this country does not sell [India]," but her forthright columns, which politics to women's issues and child care seemed off on everything from, were popular.
DAS ' first book of poetry, summer in Calcutta, Indian English poetry was a breath of fresh air in. He loved, his betrayal, and consequently suffering primarily wrote. Ms DAS was a time when Indian poets were still governed by the mind and body of a freedom for a legacy, and somewhat sterile, saundaryavad abandoned the certainties offered by "rumanikran of the 19th century, emotion and love. "[4] his second book of poetry, was even more explicit, descent and women insisting:
Gift it makes the fragrance of you Lady,
Long hair, breasts, sweat between oysters
Menstrual blood hot blow, and all your
Endless female hungers to ... "-Looking glass
Marguerite Duras and the simplicity of her voice Sylvia plath led to comparison with
At the age of 42, he published a courageous autobiography, my story It was originally written in Malayalam (title Ente Katha) and later it translated into English. Later he admitted that was more fantasy elements of autobiography. [5]
Kamala das wrote on a diverse range of topics, often a story of poor old servant possesses or a disparate-metropolis of ghetto living high among middle-class women about sexual nature. Some of her better known stories Pakshiyude manam, Neypayasam, Thanuppu, and Chandana Marangal are included. Neermathalam Pootha Kalam, which few people read novels, along with critics was received favorably, stands out, which was written.
He traveled extensively in Duisburg-Essen, Bonn and duisburg universities University, Adelaide writer's Festival, Frankfurt book fair, University of Kingston, Jamaica, Singapore University and University of the South Bank Festival Germany (London), Concordia University (poem read in Toronto, Canada), and so his work in French, Spanish, Russian, German and Japanese are available.
She is also the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Kerala Forestry Board, Chairman of the Kerala children's film society, India, [6] and the poet magazine illustrated Weekly Editor poetry editor at Vice President as Chairperson positions.
In its early years, though sometimes viewed as an attention grabber, the Indian English poetry is one of the most creative effects are seen as. In 2009, the times her "mother of the modern Indian poetry in English is called".