“…my mother has been the greatest influence in my life.”- M.T. Vasudevan Nair (Author, Director, and Screenplay writer)
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Team Kitaab interviewed Indian author, director, and screenplay writer, M.T. Vasudevan Nair and translator Gita Krishnankutty who has translated his memoirs, Bear with Me, Amma (Published by Penguin India, 2023)
Born in 1933, in Kudallur, Kerala, M.T. VASUDEVAN NAIR―or MT, as he is affectionately known to friends and readers―is one of the most loved and widely read writers in Malayalam. He started out as a teacher and then moved on to journalism in 1957, finally retiring as editor of Mathrubhumi Weekly in 1997.
MT’s literary oeuvre is varied: novels, short stories, screenplays, travelogues, literary criticism, and books for children, but the short story is, by his own admission, MT’s favourite literary form. He has over twenty collections of short stories, written between the 1950s and 1990s. Much of his fiction chronicles the disintegration of the matriarchal joint family system of the Nairs of Kerala and the conflicts associated with this process, which is the world he grew up in.
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