Ashitha

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Ashitha Biography

Ashitha was born on 5 April 1956 in Pazhayannur in Trichur district of south Indian state of Kerala to K. B. Nair, a defence accounts officer and Thekkekarupath Thankamani Amma. She completed her schooling from Delhi and Bombay and obtained her graduate and master’s degrees in English literature from Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam.

Ashitha (Malayalam: അഷിത; 5 April 1956 – 27 March 2019) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, best known for her short stories, poems and translations. She contributed in popularising haiku poems in Malayalam through her translations and her stories were known for the sensitive portrayal of life. She was a recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story as well as other honours including Padmarajan Award, Lalithambika Anterjanam Smaraka Sahitya Award and Edasseri Award.

Ponnani Edasseri Smaraka Samithi selected Ashitha’s work, Vismaya Chhihnangal for Edasseri Award in 1986 and she received the Lalithambika Anterjanam Smaraka Sahitya Award in 1994. Her short story anthology, Thathagatha, fetched her the Padmarajan Award in 2000. Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected Ashithayude Kathakal, another short story anthology, for their annual award for story in 2015. She was also a recipient of Ankanam Award and Thoppil Ravi Foundation Award.

Ashitha was married to K. V. Ramankutty, an academic, and the couple had a daughter, Uma Praseedha. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and was undergoing treatment following a relapse at a private hospital in Thrissur (Trichur) when she died on 27 March 2019, at the age of 62, survived by her husband, daughter and son-in-law.

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