Benyamin is a novelist and short story writer. Goat Days won him the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Jasmine Days is his second novel that is set in the Middle East.
Benyamin is a novelist and short story writer. Goat Days won him the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Jasmine Days is his second novel that is set in the Middle East.
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