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Menon Marath

1906–2003, writes in English, writer

Sankarankutti Menon Marath, better known as Menon Marath, was an Indo-Anglican novelist who settled in England and spent more than half of his life there. Menon graduated from Christian College in Madras and travelled to England in 1934 to pursue post-graduate studies at King’s College London. His first novel The Wound of Spring is set in pre-independence India, in Kerala,, in a feudal, matrilineal society. The second novel, The Sale of an Island (1964) is a political allegory. The third and last published novel Janu is about an orphaned girl seeking the freedoms of recognition as an equal, in friendship, in love.

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Also writing in English