Indian Malayalam-language writer and translator
Sunil Naliyath is a Malayalam language writer and translator from Kerala, India. He translated many noted literary works in Bengali to Malayalam. He received many awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2014 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2022.
Biography.
Sunil was born in 1969 in Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal as the son of T. P. Naliath, who was a political activist, writer, rationalist and a newspaper editor. His father, T. P. Naliath, was an early publisher and editor of the publication "Kerala Rashmi" in Kolkata. Soon after his birth, he came to Tiruvankulam in Ernakulam district of Kerala with his mother.
Sunil studied from 1st to 7th standard in Tiruvankulam. He then returned to West Bengal with his family and studied at the Andhra Association Education Trust's School in Calcutta. Even while in Bengal, his father's collection of Malayalam books and the Malayalam publications he purchased helped him maintain his connection with his mother tongue, Malayalam. Bengali was studied as a third language in his English undergraduate studies. It was during his undergraduate studies that he was attracted towards Bengali literary works too.
Career.
Immediately after college, he got a job in Calcutta. At that time, Sunil wrote features on Bengal football in many publications in Kerala. Later he worked as Calcutta Correspondent of "Mathrubhumi" newspaper and from 1997 to 1999 he was the representative of "Mathrubhumi".
Literary career.
The notes written during his childhood were published in the "Trial" weekly published at that time under the editorship of M. P. Narayana Pillai. Later, stories were published in the publication "Katha" and in the Balapamkti (column for children's literature) of "Desabhimani".
Sunil's first published translation was a translation of a Bengali story by Suchitra Bhattacharya, which he wrote for the women writers' story edition published by "Grihalakshmi" magazine in Malayalam. Suchitra Bhattacharya, who liked Sunil's translation, later gave Sunil the right to translate all her works. He then decided to translate the works of other noted Bengali writers into Malayalam and translated the works of Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Taslima Nasrin, Manoranjan Byapari etc. into Malayalam. For the translation of Mahasweta Devi's novel "Operation Bashai Tudu", he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation.
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