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Place of Birth: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
About Sarah Thomas (writer)
- Sarah Thomas (born 15 September 1934) is a Malayalam language writer from Kerala, India.
- Her novel Narmadi Pudava won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1979.
- She is also a recipient of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contribution to Malayalam Literature.Sarah Thomas had started writing long before the concept of feminine literature evolved in Malayalam.
- She published her first novel Jivitamenna Nadi at the age of 34.
- She became noted in the literary field after the publication of the novel Murippadukal in 1971.
- The novel narrated the life of a young man brought up in a Roman Catholic orphanage and later transferred to his Hindu ancestral home, where he is subtly persuaded to conform to Hindu religious beliefs.
- His attempts to establish an identity for himself in a situation full of conflicts were dealt with in the novel.
- It was later filmed as Manimuzhakkam by P.
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- Backer, that won several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film.
- There are three other novels of hers, Asthamayam, Pavizhamuthu and Archana, which too have been filmed.
- Her best known work is Narmani Putava which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979.
- The novel portrayed a Brahmin girl whose fate it was to agree to marry the man of her father's choice so that he would have a peaceful end.
- Two books the author rates as her favourite are Daivamakkal and Grahanam.
- A milestone in Kerala's Dalit literature, Daivamakkal (Children of God) tells the tale of a Dalit boy, his trials and tribulations as a medical student as well as in later life.
- Kunjikannan, the protagonist of the novel, is a symbol of an individual trying to break from the often sub-human status that was his lot.
- The novel was translated into English by Sosanna Kuruvilla.
- Grahanam (Eclipse) narrates the harrowing experiences that a Keralite boy and his lady love, a German, had to undergo in Lebanon.
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