{"id":55420,"date":"2021-10-12T06:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55420"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:49:05","slug":"malayalam-writer-benyamin-bags-vayalar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/malayalam-writer-benyamin-bags-vayalar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Malayalam writer Benyamin bags Vayalar Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well-known Malayalam writer Benyamin has bagged the&nbsp;<strong>45th Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literary Award<\/strong>&nbsp;for his book \u201c<strong>Manthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal\u201d.<\/strong>&nbsp;The prestigious award, instituted by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust, comprises a cash prize of&nbsp;<strong>Rs 1 lakh,<\/strong>&nbsp;a sculpture designed by renowned sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman and a citation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A political satire, the novel revolves around a nondescript village called Manthalir and the influence of religion and politics in its culture in two decades. It was chosen for recognition by an expert panel comprising writers K R Meera, George Onakkoor, and C Unnikrishnan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award would be presented to the writer in a function to be held here on October 27, the organizers added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Malayalam writer Benyamin has bagged the&nbsp;45th Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literary Award&nbsp;for his book \u201cManthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal\u201d.&nbsp;The prestigious award, instituted by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust, comprises a cash prize of&nbsp;Rs 1 lakh,&nbsp;a sculpture designed by renowned sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman and a citation. A political satire, the novel revolves around a nondescript village called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[4925,92],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-55420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55422,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55420\/revisions\/55422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55420"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=55420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}