Home Top Listing Malayalam Malayalam Top Listing

Malayalam Celebrities Who Wrote Autobiographies

Table of content

▼ Show More ▲ Show Less

1. M. T. Vasudevan Nair

M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned writer and director. He is famous for Kadavu, Oru Vadakkan Veergatha, and several other movies. He has written about 54 screenplays for movies and did direction for about seven movies. He has been rewarded by several awards for his direction, screenplay and for his novels. Nair was born on 15th July1933, in a small village of Kudallur in Kerala. Vasudevan won his first award at the age of 20 when he wrote a short story in Malayalam for Best Short Story Writing Competition held by The New York Herald Tribune in 1953. Nair penned down his first novel Naalukettu in 1958 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Since then he has written about eight novels, eightee...

Date of Birth: 15-07-1933

Date of Death: 25-12-2024

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer, Director, Screenplay, Author

M. T. Vasudevan Nair Biography

Date of Birth: 15-07-1933

Date of Death: 25-12-2024

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer, Director, Screenplay, Author

2. Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair

Born in the Travancore state of Nagercoil, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair went down in history as the first movie star of Malayalam cinema. Even though he is widely known as an actor, he was also a playwright, lyricist, director, orator and script writer. He has made many remarkable contributions to the Malayalam film industry and is revered as a stalwart in his field. He was born to Mangat Govinda Pillai and Lekshmi Amma, who were a part of the elite class in Nagercoil. Right from his childhood, he was a great writer and orator. He started writing poems at the tender age of eight and achieved his first publication when he was only fourteen. He had an intense, insatiable passion for writing and the arts and that passion made...

Date of Birth: 16-10-1916

Date of Death: 11-03-1997

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Director, Producer, Movie Actor, Lyricist

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Biography

Date of Birth: 16-10-1916

Date of Death: 11-03-1997

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Director, Producer, Movie Actor, Lyricist

3. Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Thakazhi Sivasankar Pillai is an Indian novelist, story writer. He loved to write in the Malayalam Language. He was born in Thakazhi, in Kuttanad, Alappuzha district of Kerala state. He has a nickname as ‘Thakazhi.' He was born on April 17, and the year 1912. He has the nationality of India. He is the supporter of various suppressed class. He mainly works for the welfare of oppressed ones. He is the writer of multiple novels and 600 plus short stories. He is most famous for Kayar in the year 1978 and Chemmeen in the year 1956. Pillai is the recipient of ‘Padma Bhushan.' He is the awardee of India's highest literary award ‘Jnan...

Date of Birth: 17-04-1912

Date of Death: 10-04-1999

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer, Novelist

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Biography

Date of Birth: 17-04-1912

Date of Death: 10-04-1999

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer, Novelist

4. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Born on January 21, 1908, in Kottayam district, Kerala, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a Malayalam, fiction author. He was a novelist, humanist, short story writer and freedom fighter. He was the oldest offspring of his parents. His dad was in the timber business. In the wake of starting his studies at the nearby Malayalam medium school, He went to the English medium school five miles away in Vaikom. During school days, Basheer got in touch with Mahatma Gandhi's ideology. He began wearing Khaddar, motivated by the Swadeshi movement. At the point when Gandhi came to Vaikom to take part in the VaikomSatyagraham in 1924, he went to see him. He figured out how to get on to the auto in which Gandhi voyaged and contact his han...

Date of Birth: 21-01-1908

Date of Death: 05-06-1994

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Biography

Date of Birth: 21-01-1908

Date of Death: 05-06-1994

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Writer

5. Padmarajan

P.Padmarajan is an acclaimed name in Malayalam literature and cinema history. He was an Indian screenwriter, author, and film director, known for his intricate writing and direction. Padmarajan, born in Alleppey, Kerala, to parents Anantha Padmanabha Pillai, and Devaki Amma, graduated in Chemistry from the University of Trivandrum. In 1965, he signed up as an announcer on All India Radio (AIR), Thrissur, and continued to work with them till 1986. He tied the knot to Radhalakshmi in 1970, who was his co-worker at AIR. Later on, Padmarajan had to retire prematurely from AIR, due to his literature and movie commitments. Padmarajan’s literary works ...

Date of Birth: 23-05-1945

Date of Death: 24-01-1991

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Director, Screenplay, Author

Padmarajan Biography

Date of Birth: 23-05-1945

Date of Death: 24-01-1991

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam