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Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics among others etc. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Kamala Das ''' (born '''Kamala'''; 31 March <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1934 – 31 </ins>May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name '''Madhavikutty''' and married name '''Kamala Das''', was an Indian poet in [[English language|English]] as well as an author in [[Malayalam]] from [[Kerala]], India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics among others etc. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power and she got hope after freedom, but also marked her as an [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] in her generation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/19inter.htm | title=The Rediff Interview/ Kamala Suraiya | work=[[Rediff.com]] | date=19 July 2000 | access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref> On 31 May 2009 , aged 75, she died at a hospital in [[Pune]].<ref>{{cite news</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power and she got hope after freedom, but also marked her as an [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] in her generation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/19inter.htm | title=The Rediff Interview/ Kamala Suraiya | work=[[Rediff.com]] | date=19 July 2000 | access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref> On 31 May 2009 , aged 75, she died at a hospital in [[Pune]].<ref>{{cite news</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with "{{short description|Indian writer}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox writer <br /> | name = Kamala Das<br /> | image = <br /> | penname = Madhavikutty<br /> | birth_name = Kamala<br /> | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1934|03|31}}<br /> | birth_place = [[Punnayurkulam]], [[Ponnani taluk]], [[Malabar District]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Thrissur district]], [[Kerala]], [[India]])<br /> | occupation = Poet, novelist, [[short story writer]]<br /> | nationality = Indian<br /> | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|05|31|1934|03|31}}<br /> | death_place = [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], India<br /> | resting_place = [[Palayam Juma Masjid]], [[Thiruvananthapuram]], India<br /> | genre = Poetry, novel, short story, memoirs<br /> | notableworks = ''[[Ente Katha]]'', ''[[My Story (Das book)|My Story]]'', ''The Descendants''<br /> | movement = <br /> | influences = <br /> | spouse = ''K. Madhav Das''<br /> | children = {{Plainlist |<br /> * [[Madhav Das Nalapat]]<br /> * Chinnen Das<br /> * Jayasurya Das}}<br /> | relatives = {{Plainlist |<br /> * [[Balamani Amma]] (mother)<br /> * V. M. Nair (father)}}<br /> | awards = [[Ezhuthachan Puraskaram]], [[Vayalar Award]], [[Sahitya Akademi Award]], Asan World Prize, Asian Poetry Prize, Kent Award<br /> | native_name = <br /> | citizenship = Indian<br /> }}<br /> <br /> '''Kamala Das ''' (born '''Kamala'''; 31 March 1934–31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name '''Madhavikutty''' and married name '''Kamala Das''', was an Indian poet in [[English language|English]] as well as an author in [[Malayalam]] from [[Kerala]], India. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics among others etc. <br /> <br /> Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power and she got hope after freedom, but also marked her as an [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] in her generation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jul/19inter.htm | title=The Rediff Interview/ Kamala Suraiya | work=[[Rediff.com]] | date=19 July 2000 | access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref> On 31 May 2009 , aged 75, she died at a hospital in [[Pune]].<ref>{{cite news<br /> |newspaper = [[The Hindu]]<br /> |title = PM mourns Kamala Das's death, praises her sensitive <br /> |url = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200905312123.htm<br /> |date = 31 May 2009<br /> |access-date = 4 June 2009<br /> |location=Chennai, India}}</ref><br /> <br /> ==Early life==<br /> Kamala Das was born in [[Punnayurkulam]], [[Ponnani taluk]], [[Malabar District]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Thrissur district]], [[Kerala]], [[India]]) on 31 March 1934, to V. M. Nair, a managing editor of the widely circulated Malayalam daily ''[[Mathrubhumi]]'', and [[Balamani Amma|Nalapat Balamani Amma]], a renowned [[Malayali]] poet.<br /> <br /> She spent her childhood between [[Calcutta]], where her father was employed as a senior officer in the Walford Transport Company that sold [[Bentley]] and [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls Royce]] automobiles, and the [[Nalapat]] ancestral home in [[Punnayurkulam]].<br /> <br /> Like her mother Balamani Amma, Kamala Das also excelled in writing. Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her great uncle, [[Nalapat Narayana Menon]], a prominent writer<br /> <br /> At the age of 15, she married bank officer Madhav Das, who encouraged her writing interests, and she started writing and publishing both in English and in Malayalam. Calcutta in the 1960s was a tumultuous time for the arts, and Kamala Das was one of the many voices that came up and started appearing in cult anthologies along with a generation of Indian English poets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/nandy-1977-strangertime-anthology-of.html|title=Book Excerptise: strangertime: an anthology of Indian Poetry in English by Pritish Nandy (ed)|website=cse.iitk.ac.in|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref> English was the language she chose for all six of her published poetry collections.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/03/poem-of-the-week-someone-elses-song-by-kamala-das|title=Poem of the week: Someone Else's Song by Kamala Das|last=Rumens|first=Carol|date=2015-08-03|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref><br /> <br /> ==Literary career==<br /> She was noted for her many Malayalam short stories as well as many poems written in English. Das was also a [[syndicated columnist]]. She once claimed that "poetry does not sell in this country [India]",but her forthright columns, which sounded off on everything from women's issues and child care to politics, were popular.<br /> <br /> Kamala Das' first book of poetry, ''Summer in Calcutta'' was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote chiefly of love, its betrayal, and the consequent anguish. Ms Das abandoned the certainties offered by an archaic, and somewhat sterile, aestheticism for an independence of mind and body at a time when Indian poets were still governed by "19th-century diction, sentiment and romanticised love."<ref name=times><br /> {{cite news<br /> | title = Lalit Shakya: Indian poet and writer<br /> | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6488710.ece<br /> | work = [[The Times]]<br /> | date = 13 June 2009<br /> | access-date = 28 May 2011<br /> | location=London<br /> | first=Jenny<br /> | last=Booth<br /> }}</ref><br /> Her second book of poetry, ''The Descendants'' was even more explicit, urging women to:<br /> :Gift him what makes you woman, the scent of<br /> :Long hair, the musk of sweat between the breasts,<br /> :The warm shock of menstrual blood, and all your<br /> :Endless female hungers ..." – ''The Looking Glass''<br /> This directness of her voice led to comparisons with [[Marguerite Duras]] and [[Sylvia Plath]]<ref name=times/><br /> <br /> At the age of 42, she published a daring autobiography, ''[[My Story (Das book)|My Story]]''; it was originally written in Malayalam (titled ''[[Ente Katha]]'') and later she translated it into English. Later she admitted that much of the autobiography had fictional elements.<ref><br /> {{cite news<br /> | title = Obituary: Kamala Das – Indian writer and poet who inspired women struggling to be free of domestic oppression<br /> | author = Shahnaz Habib<br /> | newspaper = The Guardian<br /> | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/18/obituary-kamala-das<br /> | date = 18 June 2009<br /> | access-date = 28 May 2011<br /> | location=London<br /> }}</ref><br /> <br /> "Some people told me that writing an autobiography like this, with absolute honesty, keeping nothing to oneself, is like doing a striptease.<br /> <br /> True, maybe. I, will, firstly, strip myself of clothes and ornaments. Then I intend to peel off this light brown skin and shatter my bones.<br /> <br /> At last, I hope you will be able to see my homeless, orphan, intensely beautiful soul, deep within the bone, deep down under, beneath even the marrow, in a fourth dimension" An Introduction is very bold poem in which she express es her true feelings about men.<br /> <br /> - excerpts from the translation of her autobiography in Malayalam, ''Ente Katha''<br /> <br /> Kamala's "An Introduction" is an autobiographical poem written in the colloquial style. She presents her feelings and thoughts in a bold manner. She realises her identity and understands that it is the need of every woman to raise a voice in this male-dominated society. The poet longs for love it is the result of her loneliness and frustration. <br /> <br /> The poem "A Hot Noon in Malabar" is about climate, surrounding in a town in Malabar. The people may be annoyed by the heat, dust and noise but she likes it. She longs for the hot noon in Malabar because she associates it with the wild men, wild thoughts and wild love. It is a torture for her to be away from Malabar.<br /> <br /> Kamala Das is essentially known for her bold and frank expression. The prominent features of her poetry are an acute obsession with love and the use of confession. The main theme of her poetry is based upon freedom, love and protection. She wrote on a diverse range of topics, often disparate- from the story of a poor old servant, about the sexual disposition of upper-middle-class women living near a metropolitan city or in the middle of the ghetto. Some of her better-known stories include ''Pakshiyude Manam'', ''Neypayasam'', ''Thanuppu'', and ''Chandana Marangal''. She wrote a few novels, out of which ''Neermathalam Pootha Kalam'', which was received favourably by the reading public as well as the critics, stands out.<br /> <br /> She travelled extensively to read poetry to Germany's [[University of Duisburg-Essen]], [[University of Bonn]] and [[University of Duisburg]] universities, Adelaide Writer's Festival, [[Frankfurt Book Fair]], [[University of Kingston]], [[Jamaica]], Singapore, and South Bank Festival (London), [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]] (Montreal, Canada), etc. Her works are available in French, Spanish, Russian, German and Japanese.<br /> <br /> Kamala Das was a confessional poet whose poems have often been considered at par with those of Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell.<br /> <br /> She has also held positions as Vice-chairperson in [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]], chairperson in Kerala Forestry Board, President of the Kerala Children's Film Society, editor of ''Poet'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/31270799.cms|title=Love and longing in Kerala|work=The Times of India|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref> and Poetry editor of ''[[Illustrated Weekly of India]]''.<br /> <br /> '''''"Dance of Eunuchs"''''' is a fine poem by Kamala Das. It has an autobiographical tone. The poet sympathises with eunuchs.<br /> <br /> The eunuchs dance in the heat of the sun. Their costumes, makeup and their passion with which they dance suggest the female delicacy. Their outward appearance and joy is contrasted with their inward sadness. Actually there is no joy in their heart, they can't even dream of happiness.<br /> <br /> In the poem '''''<nowiki/>'A Request'''''' ,the poetess Kamala Das realises that her life is meaningless. She is alone and her colourless life is designed of crumbling patterns.<br /> <br /> Although occasionally seen as an attention-grabber in her early years,<ref name=hindu>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/02/06/stories/1306078m.htm The histrionics of Kamala Das] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626082233/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/02/06/stories/1306078m.htm |date=26 June 2008 }} [[The Hindu]], 6 February 2000</ref> she is now seen as one of the most formative influences on Indian English poetry. In 2009, [[The Times]] called her "the mother of modern English Indian poetry".<ref name=times/><br /> <br /> Her last book titled ''The Kept Woman and Other Stories,'' featuring translation of her short stories, was published posthumously.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/thus-spake-das/article852444.ece|title=Thus spake Das|last=Pisharoty|first=Sangeeta Barooah|date=2010-10-27|newspaper=The Hindu|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref><br /> Kamala Das is known for her controversial writings where she openly talks about the restriction imposed on women. She is known for her rebellious nature against the conventions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/kamala-das|title=Kamala Das|first=Shahnaz|last=Habib|website=The New Yorker}}</ref><br /> <br /> ==Personal life==<br /> <br /> Kamala married Madhav Das at the age of 15. The couple had three sons – [[M D Nalapat]], Chinen Das and Jayasurya Das.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kamala-Das-passes-away/articleshow/4599921.cms|title=Kamala Das passes away|work=The Times of India|access-date=30 July 2018}}</ref> Her husband predeceased her in 1992, after 43 years of marriage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/she-lived-her-life-her-way-kamala-das-son-opens-about-his-fearless-mother-76068|title='She lived her life her way': Kamala Das' son opens up about his fearless mother|date=7 February 2018|website=The News Minute}}</ref> [[Madhav Das Nalapat]], her eldest son, is married to Princess Thiruvathira Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi (daughter of Princess Pooyam Thirunal Gouri Parvati Bayi and Sri Chembrol Raja Raja Varma Avargal) from the [[Travancore]] Royal House.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} He holds the [[UNESCO]] Peace Chair and is a Professor of [[geopolitics]] at the [[Manipal University]]. He had been a resident editor of ''[[The Times of India]]''. Kamala Surayya converted to Islam in 1999 and announced that she planned to marry her Muslim lover, but she never remarried.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/14kamala.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: When the temptress dons the purdah...|website=www.rediff.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kamla Das |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/kamala-das |website=The New Yorker|access-date=13 February 2020}}</ref><br /> <br /> On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in [[Pune]], after a long battle with [[pneumonia]]. Her body was flown to her home state of Kerala. She was interred at the [[Palayam Juma Masjid]] at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] with full state honour.<ref>{{cite news<br /> |newspaper = The Hindu<br /> |title = Kerala pays tributes to Kamala Surayya<br /> |url = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200906011831.htm<br /> |date = 1 June 2009<br /> |access-date = 4 June 2009<br /> |location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news<br /> |title = Tributes showered on Kamala Suraiya<br /> |url = http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/02/stories/2009060253900400.htm<br /> |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121107102057/http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/02/stories/2009060253900400.htm<br /> |url-status = dead<br /> |archive-date = 7 November 2012<br /> |date = 2 June 2009<br /> |access-date = 4 June 2009<br /> |newspaper = [[The Hindu]]<br /> |location=Chennai, India}}</ref><br /> <br /> ===Politics===<br /> Though never politically active before, she launched a national political party, Lok Seva Party, aiming at the promotion of secularism and providing asylum to orphaned mothers. In 1984 she unsuccessfully contested in the Indian Parliament elections.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/noted-writer-kamala-das-suraiya-passes-away_535736.html | title=Noted writer Kamala Das Suraiya passes away | publisher=[[Zee News]] | date=31 May 2009 | access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref><br /> <br /> ===Conversion to Islam===<br /> She was born in a conservative Hindu [[Nair]] (Nalapat) family having royal ancestry.<ref>Untying and retying the text: an analysis of Kamala Das's My story, by Ikbala Kaura, 1990. p.188</ref> She converted to Islam on December 11, 1999, at the age of 65 and assumed the name Kamala Surayya.<ref>George Iype (December 14, 1999). [http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/14kamala.htm "When the temptress dons the purdah"]. Rediff. Retrieved February 11, 2018.</ref><ref name="tehelka1">{{Cite web |url=http://tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=hub181210He_asked.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=2 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216235705/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=hub181210He_asked.asp |archive-date=16 December 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br /> <br /> ===Legacy===<br /> On 1 February 2018, [[Google Doodle]] by artist Manjit Thapp celebrates the work she left behind, which provides a window into the world of an engrossing woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-kamala-das|title=Celebrating Kamala Das|website=www.google.com}}</ref><br /> <br /> A biopic on her titled [[Aami]] directed by [[Kamal (director)|Kamal]], released on 9 February 2018.<br /> <br /> ==Awards and other recognitions==<br /> Kamala Das has received many awards for her literary contribution, including:<br /> * 1963: PEN Asian Poetry Prize<br /> * 1968: [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story]] – ''Thanuppu''<ref name=LiteraryAwards>{{cite web |url=https://kerala.gov.in/literacy-awards |title=Literary Awards |publisher=[[Government of Kerala]] |website=kerala.gov.in |access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref><br /> * 1984: Shortlisted for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=Indian English Poetry and Fiction: Critical Elucidations |author= Amar Nath Prasad, Rajiv K. Mallik |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=2007 |location=[[New Delhi]] |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC |isbn=978-81-7625-730-5}}</ref><br /> * 1985: [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English|Kendra Sahitya Academy Award (English)]] – ''Collected Poems''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#ENGLISH |title=AKADEMI AWARDS (1955-2016) |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in |access-date=30 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084937/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#ENGLISH |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><br /> * 1988: [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Story]]<br /> * 1997: [[Vayalar Award]] – ''Neermathalam Pootha Kalam''<ref name=LiteraryAwards/><br /> * 1998: Asian Poetry Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiaonline.in/about/personalities/writersandpoets/kamala-das|title=Awards and achievements of Kamala Das|access-date=3 March 2021}}</ref><br /> * 2006: Honorary [[D.Litt]] by [[University of Calicut]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universityofcalicut.info/news/formerdegreerecepients.pdf|title=Honorary degree by Calicut University|access-date=8 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107134605/http://www.universityofcalicut.info/news/formerdegreerecepients.pdf|archive-date=7 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br /> * 2006: [[Muttathu Varkey Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524212356/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm|url-status=dead|title=Literary Awards – official website of Onformation and Public Relation Department|archive-date=24 May 2007}}</ref><br /> * 2009: [[Ezhuthachan Puraskaram|Ezhuthachan Award]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/Writer-Kamala-Surayiya-receives-Ezhuthachan-prize/articleshow/32767867.cms |title=Writer Kamala Surayiya receives Ezhuthachan prize |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=1 January 2003 |access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref><br /> <br /> ==Books==<br /> ===English===<br /> ; ''Novel''<br /> * 1976: ''Alphabet of Lust''<br /> <br /> ; ''Autobiography''<br /> * 1976: ''[[My Story (Das book)|My Story]]''<br /> <br /> ; ''Short stories''<br /> * 1977: ''A Doll for the Child Prostitute''<br /> * 1992: ''Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories''<br /> <br /> ; ''Poetry''<br /> * 1964: ''The Sirens''<br /> * 1965: ''Summer in Calcutta''<br /> * 1967: ''The Descendants''<br /> * 1973: ''The Old Playhouse and Other Poems''<br /> * 1977: The Stranger Time <br /> * 1979: ''Tonight, This Savage Rite'' (with Pritish Nandy)<br /> * 1984: ''Collected Poems''<br /> * 1985: ''The Anamalai Poems''<br /> * 1997: ''Only the Soul Knows How to Sing''<br /> * 1999: ''My Mother at Sixty-six''<br /> * 2001: ''Yaa Allah''<br /> * Punishment in the kindergarten<br /> <br /> ===Malayalam===<br /> * 1964: ''Pakshiyude Manam'' (short stories)<br /> * 1966: ''Naricheerukal Parakkumbol'' (short stories)<br /> * 1968: ''Thanuppu'' (short story)<br /> * 1973: ''[[Ente Katha]]'' (autobiography)<br /> * 1987: ''Balyakala Smaranakal'' (childhood memoirs)<br /> * 1989: ''Varshangalkku Mumbu'' (novel)<br /> * 1990: ''Palayan'' (novel)<br /> * 1991: ''Neypayasam'' (short story)<br /> * 1992: ''Dayarikkurippukal'' (novel)<br /> * 1994: ''Neermathalam Pootha Kalam'' (novel)<br /> * 1996: ''Kadal Mayooram'' (short novel)<br /> * 1996: ''Rohini'' (short novel)<br /> * 1996: ''Rathriyude Padavinyasam'' (short novel)<br /> * 1996: ''Aattukattil'' (short novel)<br /> * 1996: ''Chekkerunna Pakshikal'' (short stories)<br /> * 1998: ''Nashtapetta Neelambari'' (short stories)<br /> * 2005: ''Chandana Marangal'' (novel)<br /> * 2005: ''Madhavikkuttiyude Unmakkadhakal'' (short stories)<br /> * 2005: ''Vandikkalakal'' (novel)<br /> *2019 : Ottayadi pathayum vishadam pookkunna marangalum <br /> <br /> == Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies ==<br /> * ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (1976) ed. by [[R. Parthasarathy]] and published by [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Ten 20th Century Indian Poets |url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/parthasarathy-1976-ten-20th-century.html |website=cse.iitk.ac.in |publisher=cse.iitk.ac.in |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref><br /> * ''The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets'' (1992) ed. by [[Arvind Krishna Mehrotra]] and published by [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets |url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/mehrotra-1993-oxford-india-anthology.html |website=cse.iitk.ac.in |publisher=cse.iitk.ac.in |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Book review: 'Twelve Modern Indian Poets' by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19920815-book-review-twelve-modern-indian-poets-by-arvind-krishna-mehrotra-766731-2013-01-03 |website=indiatoday.in |publisher=indiatoday.in |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref><br /> * ''The Golden Treasure of [[Writers Workshop]] Poetry'' (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Review : ASIATIC, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2009 |url=http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/82/67 |website=journals.iium.edu.my |publisher=journals.iium.edu.my |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref><br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> {{portal|Poetry}}<br /> * [[Indian English literature]]<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> # ''[[Aami]]'', a Malayalam biopic on her released in 2018.<br /> # [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/6643/kamala-ignited-soul.html The Ignited Soul by Shreekumar Varma]<br /> # Manohar, D. Murali. Kamala Das: Treatment of Love in Her Poetry.indear Kumar Gulbarga: JIWE, 1999.<br /> # "Cheated and Exploited: Women in Kamala Das’s Short Stories", In Mohan G Ramanan and P. Sailaja (eds.). English and the Indian Short Story. New Delhi: Orient Longman (2000).117–123<br /> #Summer in Calcutta is a poem by Kamala Das written in joyful mood.<br /> <br /> She says that hot sun is squeezed like an orange in her glass. She drinks it which makes her mind shouting with laughter. The poem celebrates the poet's temporary victory over the defeat of love. Actually Kamala Das has described her creative reaction to the torture of an Indian summer.<br /> <br /> # "Man-Woman Relationship with Respect to the Treatment of Love in Kamala Das' Poetry". Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 191. Ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2004. 44–60.<br /> # "Individuality" in Kamala Das and in Her Poetry". English Poetry in India: A Secular Viewpoint. Eds. PCK Prem and D.C.Chambial. Jaipur: Aavishkar, 2011. 65–73.<br /> # "Meet the Writer: Kamala Das", POETCRIT XVI: 1 (January 2003): 83–98.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> {{wikiquote}}<br /> {{commons category}}<br /> * [http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm Varsha Bhosle on Kamala Das' conversion to Islam]<br /> * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820100956/http://globalwebpost.com/farooqm/writings/other/kamala.htm "From Kamala Das to Dashi: Doing the right thing for wrong reasons?" by Dr Mohammad Omar Farooq]<br /> * [http://www.littlemag.com/family/kamala.html Translation of ''Neypayasam'']<br /> * [https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/10/das-kamala/ Eroticism and feminism in Das' writings]<br /> * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070910214654/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/02/06/stories/1306078m.htm The histrionics of Kamala Das]<br /> * [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200906021241.htm Funeral]<br /> * [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/5446382/Kamala-Suraiyya.html Kamala Suraiyya] – Daily Telegraph obituary<br /> *[http://www.universetale.com/kamala-das-surayya-the-fearless-poet/ Kamla Das]<br /> <br /> {{Sahitya Akademi Award for English}}<br /> {{Ezhuthachan Puraskaram}}<br /> {{Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship}}<br /> {{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Surayya, Kamala}}<br /> [[Category:1934 births]]<br /> [[Category:2009 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Indian women novelists]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Muslims]]<br /> [[Category:Kerala State Film Award winners]]<br /> [[Category:Malayalam-language writers]]<br /> [[Category:Malayalam novelists]]<br /> [[Category:Writers from Pune]]<br /> [[Category:People from Thrissur district]]<br /> [[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English]]<br /> [[Category:Recipients of the Ezhuthachan Award]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:English-language poets from India]]<br /> [[Category:Manipal Academy of Higher Education alumni]]<br /> [[Category:Converts to Islam from Hinduism]]<br /> [[Category:Indian women poets]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br /> [[Category:Novelists from Kerala]]<br /> [[Category:21st-century Indian novelists]]<br /> [[Category:21st-century Indian poets]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]<br /> [[Category:21st-century Indian women writers]]<br /> [[Category:Women writers from Kerala]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers]]<br /> [[Category:Pseudonymous women writers]]</div>

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