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Nov 30, 2019 · Unni R loves his coffee and the ambience of cafes, a far cry from the rural milieu his stories conjure up. The mid-morning light pools in his deep-set eyes. His beard is freshly trimmed.
Nov 5, 2020 · Unni sips his black coffee and puts down The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, which he likes to read at random. “It may look like an act of bravery, but it is better to walk away than to continue without conviction.
UNNI R IS A much-lauded writer of short stories and screenplays in Malayalam. His milieu is the village he belongs to, Kudamalloor, in Kerala’s Kottayam district. The landscape is vintage rural Kottayam: churchyards, mosques, temples and SNDP shakhas ; the food: yam-patches, chukka coffee and cooked tapioca served on colocasia leaf; the ...
- When You First Get An Idea, What Form Does It take?
- How Do You Decide Which Format It Is Better Suited to?
- How Important Is Winning Such Literary Titles to You?
- What Advice Would You Give to Aspiring Writers Trying to Make It?
- Do You Read in Languages Other Than Malayalam?
- How Can Writers Use The Power of The Word to Bring About Socio-Cultural Changes?
- How Did The Ideas For These Stories First Come to You?
Unni R:The form often depends on the idea generated and the intention to express it differently. I think of several formats and fix on a style that would provide a new reading experience.
Unni R:I think I can probably assess it based on my long years of extensive reading experience. I have grown up on the poems of Vyloppilly Sreedhara Menonand the stories of Karoor and Thakazhi. I would recommend contemporary Malayalam writers like NS Madhavan, Paul Zacharia and M. Mukundan as ‘must read’.
Unni R:Awards bring in public attention and the recognition for creative work is good even though it is not part of the original scheme of why I write. The awards might have brought visibility to my work and would have probably led to an increase in sales. But for any writer, it is better to have a few enlightened readers than his work selling a mi...
Unni R:I have neither taken advice from any one in matters of writing nor do I believe in giving some.
Unni R:Kerala has a commendable early history of translation and it is noteworthy that people like Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai had even written a biography of Karl Marx as early as 1912. Translations of the works of Kafka, Thomas Mann etc had appeared in Malayalam in the 1950s. I have read these translations in the early years and later it e...
Unni R:I agree that History has proved that the word has the power to alter the world and many writers have paid the price for the same with their lives.
Unni R:As Foucault would say, the search for historical origins could be lowly and depressive and I believe the search for origins itself is a myth. But still I would say that Kaalinaadakam’ is an effort to look at the persona of Kali Amma, deemed to be the wife of Sree Narayana Guru, the great social Reformer of Kerala, one of the foremost figures...
Aug 27, 2019 · ‘Guru, why didn’t you speak to Gandhi in English?’ Unni R’s short stories are wildly original
Oct 12, 2019 · Unni R has a keen eye for local detail and great empathy for his characters One Hell of a Lover, the lead story in the collection with the same title, too, is a sharp rebuke of the Malayali macho masculine’s dangerous notions of the feminine and sexuality.
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Sep 22, 2016 · Exhilarating and alarming would be useful words to describe Unni R.’s short story collection titled Oru Bhayangara Kamukan. His stories seem to echo the here and nowhere, heaven and hell,...
