C P Surendran
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Biography
Born to malayalam writer and rationalist PavananPavanan
Puthan Veetil Narayanan Nair was a well known rationalist, literary critic and left wing political activist from Kerala, India.-Early Days and Education:...
and Parvathy, C. P. Surendran received his M.A. in English Literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
from Delhi University, Delhi
Delhi
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and taught for short while at Calicut University before working as journalist in Mumbai
Mumbai
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for many English newspaper including the Times of India , Times Sunday Review , Bombay Times besides others. He was resident editor of the Times of India in Pune for three years. He is now senior editor with the Times of India in Delhi.
A selection of his poems was included in Gemini II in 1994 . He published an independent collection of poems Posthumous Poems in 2000.
His first novel An Iron Harvest, about the Naxalite
Naxalite
The word Naxal, Naxalite or Naksalvadi is a generic term used to refer to various militant Communist groups operating in different parts of India under different organizational envelopes...
uprising, was published by Indiaink. He has also published three collections of poetry. He currently lives in delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
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External links
- LOST AND FOUND: Hard and Bound from Indian Express
- Review of Canaries on the Moon from The HinduThe HinduThe Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...
- Review of An Iron Harvest by Vinod Jose