Paul Zacharia

Paul Zacharia has authored over 50 works of fiction and non-fiction in Malayalam including short stories, novellas, travelogues, film-scripts, essays and children’s books. He writes for leading Malayalam and English newspapers. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004 and was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi in 2013. He received the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the top literary honor of the government of Kerala, in 2020. His latest works are “True Story of a Writer, a Philosopher and a Shape-shifter,” a novel in English and “Fifty Stories,” a collection of stories in English translation.