Altri nomi: Madhavikkutty
Surayya, Kamala
Data di nascita: 1934-03-31
Data di morte: 2009-05-31
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: India
Luogo di nascita: Punnayarkulam, Thrissur District, Kerala, India
Luogo di morte: Maharashtra, India
Luogo di residenza: Kerala, India
Attività lavorative: writer
Premi e riconoscimenti: Asian Poetry Prize (1998)
Kent Award for English Writing from Asian Countries (1999)
Asian World Prize (2000)
Sahitya Academy Award (2003)
Kerala Sahitya Academy Award (2005)
Breve biografia: Kamala Suraiyya (b. Kamala Madhavikutty) (Malayalam കമലാ സുരയ്യ / മാധവിക്കുട്ടി) (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South 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 fiery poems and explicit autobiography.

Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation.[1] On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune,[2] but has earned considerable respect in recent years.

English

1964: The Sirens (Asian Poetry Prize winner)
1965: Summer in Calcutta (poetry; Kent's Award winner)
1967: The Descendants (poetry)
1973: The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (poetry)
1976: My Story (autobiography)
1977: Alphabet of Lust (novel)
1985: The Anamalai Poems (poetry)
1992: Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories (collection of short stories)
1996: Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (poetry)
2001: Yaa Allah (collection of poems)
1979: Tonight,This Savage Rite (with Pritish Nandy)
1999: My Mother At Sixty-six (Poem)

Utenti

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Nirmatalam puttakalam di Kamala Das

"വെറും നയന സുഖം ആണ് മനുഷ്യന് വിധിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളത് .. ഈ നിലാവെളിച്ചവും ഈ കാറ്റും സുഘവും ഒന്നും വിലക്ക് വാങ്ങാൻ കഴിയില്ല" ... ചരിത്രവും ഓര്മകളും രാജകന്മാരുടെയും യുദ്ധങ്ങളുടെയുo സാഹസികതയുടെയും മാത്രം കഥയല്ല ...സേന്ഹിച്ചവരുടെയും കഥയാണ് ...സാധാരണ മനുഷ്യരുടെ കഥ ... വാക്കുകള അന്വര്തമാക്കും വിതം ഒരു നല്ല ഒര്മാകുരിപ്പ് .. കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളുടെ കുത്തൊഴുക്ക് തന്നെ ആയിരുന്നു "നീര്മാതളം പൂത്തകാലം". എത്രയോ generation ഓർമ്മകൾ സ്വരൂപിചെടുക്കാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞു എന്നത് ഇപ്പോഴും വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ പറ്റുന്നില്ല ......... ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം കൊണ്ട് വീർപുമുട്ടി പോയി... നാലപാട്ടെ വീടും ....കൊല്കതയിലെ ജീവിതവും ...............… (altro)

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AkshayJoy | Apr 29, 2014 |

Only the soul knows how to sing (Deecee contemporary… di Kamala Das

A poignant song of life..thats how i see these poems.. heart wrenching..i could feel her inner turmoil as she tries to break free from the strictures of society and yet wants to be engulfed in its warmth..a life lived seeking love..but never finding.
Once again i am in awe of Ms Das. Her poetry can never be reviewed. Some moments in those poems really had my soul shattered.
Wish to own a copy soon

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smitha_1988 | Apr 17, 2014 |

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