writing for the film Ore Kadal, a National Award winner. She is also a well-known column-writer in Malayalam. Themes Meera cites the work of a number of Indian authors as influencing her work, including E V Krishna Pillai, Kamala Das, T Padmanabhan, S V Venugopan Nair, Anand, M Mukundan, C V Sriraman, O N V Kurup, and Sugathakumari. Amongst non-Indian writers, she cites Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a primary influence. Her work explores themes relating to patriarchy, discrimination, and individuality, focusing on the inner lives of women and challenging traditional power dynamics. Meera has described her work as engaging with her political environment, stating, "Every writer is a political writer. It is very difficult for any writer to shut down from what is happening in and around society. And as a writer, we reflect on what’s happening in society through our writing. Writing’s a mixture of conscious and unconscious creative thinking— intuition and craft—it feels very unnatural to analyse it in any other kind of systematic way.” Awards and honours 2004: Lalithambika Sahitya Award 2004: Gita Hiranyan Endowment Award by Kerala Sahitya Akademi - Ormayude Njarampu 2009: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story - Ave Maria 2013: Odakkuzhal Award - Aarachaar 2013: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel - Aarachaar 2014: Vayalar Award - Aarachaar 2015: Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award - Aarachaar 2016: Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature - Hangwoman (Translated by J. Devika) 2018: Muttathu Varkey Award - Aarachaar Bibliography Novels Nethronmeelanam Meerasadhu (translated to English by Ministhy S. as The Poison of Love) Yudasinte Suvishesham[The Gospel of Yudas] Malakayude Marukukal Karineela Aa Maratheyum Marannu Marannu Njan (And Slowly Forgetting that Tree) Aarachaar (2012) (Hangwoman: Everyone Loves a Good Hanging) Sooryane Aninja Oru Sthree Ghathakan (The Assassin) Khabar Collections of short stories Sarpayajnam G(2001) Ormayude Njarambu (2002) (The Vein of Memory) Moha Manja (2004) (Yellow is the Colour of Longing) Ave Maria K. R. Meerayude Kathakal Guillotine Meerayude Novellakal (2014) Penpanjatandram[2016] Bhagavante Maranam[2017] Memoirs Mazhayil Parakkunna Pakshikal Ente Jeevitattile Chilar Kadhayezhuth References External links "Yellow is the Colour of Longing". (The Daily Star) https://web.archive.org/web/20100906183453/http://www.sasthamcotta.com/K%20R%20Meera.html http://www.womenswriting.com/WomensWriting/AuthorProfileDetail.asp?AuthorID=127 Living people 1970 births Indian women short story writers Malayalam-language writers Malayalam novelists Malayalam short story writers People from Kollam district Indian women novelists Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Malayalam Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 21st-century Indian short story writers Novelists from Kerala 21st-century Indian novelists