M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of postIndependence Indian literature. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad district , which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj. He shot into fame at the age ofwhen, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by The New York Herald Tribune. His debut novel Naalukettu , wrote at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. His other novels include Manju , Kaalam , Asuravithu and Randamoozham . The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MTs novels. Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were pathbreaki

Vasudevan was born onJuly 1933 in Kudallur in the present day Palakkad district. He was the youngest of four children born to T. Narayanan Nair and Ammalu Amma. His father was in Ceylon and he spent his early days in Kudallur and in his fathers house in Punnayurkulam, a village in the present day Thrissur district. He completed his schooling from Malamakkavu Elementary School and Kumaranelloor High School. He had to break education after high school, and when he joined college in 1949, he was advised to opt for the science stream as it was felt that a degree in science secured a job faster than any other degree. He obtained a degree in chemistry from Victoria College, Palakkad in 1953. He taught mathematics in Pattambi Board High School and Chavakkad Board High School for over a year and worked in M.B. Tutorial College, Palakkad during 195556. He also worked as a gramasevakan at a block development office in Taliparamba, Kannur for a few weeks before joining Mathrubhumi Weekly as s

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