Selling books on the footpath and writing books — Kerala bookseller on his love of words
The Hindu
Shamnad N discovered a fondness for fiction, selling novels on the footpath. Now, he has two books to his credit
Shamnad N has been selling books on a footpath in Thrissur for more than 15 years. He fell in love with writing as he casually flipped through the stall’s collection of Malayalam magazines. Over time, he graduated to the works of authors such as Vaikom Muhmammed Basheer and Madhavikutty. He eventually ended up publishing two books — an anthology of poems in Malayalam, Episode (2009; also translated into English) and a Malayalam novella, Beeran Bithacha Bithu (2018). “It was perhaps the amount of time I spent with books which fired my interest,” says the 36 year-old, from his stall opposite the Kerala Sahitya Akademi building on Palace Road. “Since I was in the company of books and magazines, I started reading Malayalam magazines. I moved on to other books, fiction especially. I started writing around the same time.”
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