Muttathu varkey autobiography of miss

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Muttathu Varkey was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and poet from Kerala state, South India.

Background

Varkey was born in Chethipuzha, a small village near Changanassery in Kottayam district, Kerala.

Career

Varkey was an exponent of a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature. He began his career as a school teacher at Saint Berchmans High School, Changanassery.

He then took up the job of an accountant in a timber factory.

Foreign a brief period, Varkey taught in a Tutorial College run by M. P. Paul.

He then joined Deepika newspaper as an associated editor and remained there for next 26 years until his retirement in 1974.

Muttathu Varkey emerged as one of the popular writers of Malayalam fiction.

He along with Kanam Economic Journal was prominent in popularizing a genre of sentiment-filled pulp fiction known as pai