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'''''Visappu''''' (''Hunger'') is a collection of Malayalam short stories by [[Vaikom Muhammad Basheer]] published in 1954.<ref>[http://www.cs.nyu.edu/kandathi/basheer.html "Works by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612032617/http://www.cs.nyu.edu/kandathi/basheer.html |date=12 June 2013 }}. [[New York University]]. Retrieved 3 June 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2502/stories/20080201501110100.htm |title=Sultan of story: A birth centenary tribute to Vaikom Mohammed Basheer who picked up his tales from life's poetry |first=K. | last=Satchidanandan |journal=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |date=February 2008 |volume= 25 |issue= 2|access-date=30 May 2018 }}</ref> The collection includes Basheer's first story "[[Ente Thankam]]" (My Darling) which is titled "Thankam" in the book.<ref>{{cite book|title=Basheer fictions|author=M. N. Vijayan|author-link=M. N. Vijayan|editor=M. N. Vijayan|editor-link=M. N. Vijayan|publisher=Katha|year=1996|page=21}}</ref> This story originally appeared in the [[Ernakulam]]-based newspaper ''Jayakesari'' in 1937.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vushappu (Hunger)|author=Vaikom Muhammad Basheer|year=1954|publisher=Current Books|chapter=Foreword|quote=It is years since I have started writing stories. When did I start? I think it was from 1937. I have been living in Ernakulam since then. I was a writer by profession. I wrote a great deal. I would get my writing published in newspapers and journals. No one paid me for it. The stories were published between 1937 and 1941 in ''Navajeevan'', a weekly published in Trivandrum in those days.}}</ref> The other stories include "Visappu" (Hunger), "Marunnu" (Medicine) and "Pishachu" (Devil). ''Visappu'' is considered a modern classic in south Asian literature.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Classics of Modern South Asian Literature |author=Rupert Snell, I. M. P. Raeside |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |pages=27, 28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eJjAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><br />
==List of stories==<br />
# "Thankam"<br />
# "Shashinas"<br />
# "Hridayanatha"<br />
# "Marunnu"<br />
# "Nammude Hridayangal"<br />
# "Pishachu"<br />
# "Visappu"<br />
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