It is used as a textbook at Kerala University, Calicut University, Bharathiar University, Pondicherry University and 10th standard for Kerala State syllabus. Goat Days ( Aadujeevitham), his most famous novel, portrays the life of an Indian labourer in Saudi Arabia. He lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 1992 to 2013, before returning to Kerala. The novel Manthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal won the Vayalar Award in 2021.īenyamin was born in 1971 in Njettoor, Kulanada, near Pandalam of the south Indian state of Kerala. For his novel Goat Days ( Aadujeevitham), he won the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and JCB Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He is the author of about thirty books in various genres – from short stories to novels and memoirs. Benny Daniel (born 1971), better known by his penname Benyamin, is an Indian writer in Malayalam from Kerala.
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