Poetry Manipravalam Champoos Sandesakavyam Niranam poets Cherusseri Namboodiri Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Poonthanam Namboodiri Kottayam Thampuran Unnayi Warrier Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770) Irayimman Thampi Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran K C Kesava Pillai (1868-1914) Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) Ulloor Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949) Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958) Modern Romantics Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair (1883-1959) Nalappat Narayana Menon (1887-1955) G Sankara Kurup (1900-1978) Balamani Amma Edappalli Raghavan Pillai (1909-1936) Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948) Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911-1985) Other Modern Poets Balachandran Chullikkadu Edasseri Govindan Nair Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan O N V Kurup Satchidanandan Sugathakumari Vayalar Ramavarma Vishnunarayanan Namboodiri T.P.Rajeevan Ayyappan Fiction 19th Century O Chandhu Menon (1847-1900) C V Raman Pillai (1858-1922) Modern Karur Neelakanta Pillai (1898-1974) P Kesava Dev (1904-1983) Ponkunnam Varkey (b.1908) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1912-1994) S K Pottakkat (1913-1982) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1914 -1999) P C Kutikrishnan (1915-1979) Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909-1987) K Saraswathi Amma (1919-1974) Kamaladas O V Vijayan Mukundan M T Vasudevan Nair T Padmanabhan Anand Maythil Radhakrishnan Literary Criticism A R Rajaraja Varma (1863-1918) A.Balakrishana Pillai (1889-1960) Joseph Mundasseri (1901-1977) Kuttikrishna Marar (1900-1973) Sukumar Azhikkod M Krishnan Nair K.P.Appan V.C.Sreejan External Links Information on Malayalam Literature at Department of Public Relations, Government of Kerala One Hundred Years of Malayalam Literature: A Brief Survey
