1. Life

2. Literary career

3. List of works

4. Awards

5. References

V. R. Sudheesh is a Malayalam–language short story writer from Kerala, India.

Life

Sudheesh was born in Vadakara near Calicut, Kerala. He graduated in history from Madappally Government College and earned an MA in Malayalam literature from Government Brennen College, Tellicherry. He has completed M.Phil from Madras University. He then became a teacher in colleges under SN Trust. He now works at SN College, Chelannur. He is married and has a daughter.

Literary career

Sudheesh started writing at a very young age and his early works were published in the children's column of Mathrubhumi Weekly and later in Chandrika Weekly and Deshabhimani Weekly. He also published an inland magazine called Layam. While he was a student of Madappally College, he won the prize in short story competition at the Calicut University Arts Festival. Sudheesh's early stories were published when Malayalam short stories were undergoing a transformation in form and content. He was one of the proponents of this transformation and is now regarded as an important writer in postmodern Malayalam literature. He is a recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (twice), Thoppil Ravi Puraskaram, Ayamanam-C. V. Sreeraman Puraskaram. His stories are part of curriculum in schools and universities in Kerala.

List of works

• Kroora Phalithakkaran Daivam
• Daivathinu Oru Poovu
• Vamshananthara Thalamura
• Cholamarappathakal
• Vimathalaingikam
• Oru Ezhuthukari Ariyunnu
• Vakkukal Sangeethamakunna Kaalam Varunnundu
• Rajavinte Meenukal
• Thiyyakuttikal Innum Vicharikkunnu
• Sankadamaram
• Katha Parayum Katha Maman
• Ksheerapatham
• Marakkoottangalkkidayile Nananja Mannu
• Sudheeshinte Kathakal
• Priyappetta Kathakal
• Bhavana Bhedanam
• Novel Velichangal (study)
• Kathantharam (study)
• Athmagaanam (Memoirs)
• Samudra Vipanchika (essay)
• Ottakkatha Patanangal (study)
• Ezhuthiya Kaalam (Memoirs)
• Malayalathinte Pranayakathakal (editor)
• Malayalathinte Pranayakavithakal (editor)
• Pranayapusthakom (editor)
• M.T. (editor)
• Sambhashanam (editor)
• Kathakal: Pranayathinte, Maranathinteyum (editor)
• Anubhavam, Orma, Yathra
• Pranayachandrakantham (essay)
• Kurukkan Mashinte School (children's literature)

Awards

• 2017: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature – Kurukkan Mashinte School^[1]
• 2014: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story – Bhavana Bhedanam^[2]

References

• Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet
• Sir Francis Moncrieff Kerr-Jarrett
• Sir Francis Moon
• Sir Francis Mowatt
• Sir Francis Mudie
• Sir Francis Nethersole
• Sir Francis Pile, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Francis Powell
• Sir Francis Prujean
• Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Wytley
• Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin
• Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet
• Sir Francis Sandford
• Sir Francis Shelmerdine
• Sir Francis Sykes, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Francis Thornhill Baring
• Sir Francis Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet
• Sir Francis Tress Barry
• Sir Francis Tress Barry, 1st Baronet
• Sir Francis Verner Wylie, GCIE, KCSI, ICS
• Sir Francis Vincent, 3rd Baronet
• Sir Francis Walshe
• Sir Francis Whitmore, 1st Baronet
• Sir Francis William Sykes
• Sir Francis William Sykes, 2nd Baronet