Thoppil Mohamed Meeran is an Indian author who writes in Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

.

Meeran was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali (The Reclining Chair). He has also received the Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam Award, the Ilakkiya Chintanai Award, and the T N Govt. Award. He has published five novels and six short story collections.

Personal life

Mohamed Meeran is married to his wife, Jaleela. They have two children, Shameem Ahamed and Mirzad Ahamed.

Novels

• Oru Kadalora Kiramathin Kathai (1988, The Story of Sea Side Village)
  
• Turaimugam (1991, Harbour)
  
• Koonan Thoppu (1993, The Grove of a Hunchback)
  
• Saivu Narkkali (1995, The Reclining Chair)

Short Story Collections

• Anbuku Muthumai Illai
• Thankarasu(1995)
• Anathasainam Colony
• Oru kutty thevin varipadam
• Thoppil mohammed meeran kathaigal
• Oru mamaramum konjam paravaigalum

Translations

• Husainul jamal (moin kutty vaither)
• Theivathin kanne (NP Mohammed)
• vaikom muhammad basheer valkai varalaru (mona graph) (MN karassery)
• Thirukottiyur kurunavel (U.A Kader)

Awards

• Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumantam
• Ilakkiya Chintanai
• Lilly Devasigamani
• T N Govt. Award
• Amuthan adigal Literary award
• TN Murpokku Ezhuthalar Sangam
• Sahitya Akademi Award