The book also did well in Joseph Koyipalli’s English translation as Goat Days (2012). His Aadujeevitham ran into more than 100 editions, selling over a hundred thousand copies, and a Malayalam film version, starring Prithviraj, is planned for release by end-2020. Now the author of over 16 books in Malayalam, Benyamin remains prolific and hugely popular in Kerala, to which he returned in 2013. His first short story appeared in the Gulf edition of Malayala Manorama in November 1999. So, I started, he says in an email interview. But I realised nobody was writing about it yet. I wished to read about the situations I felt and saw around me. Writing grew organically out of a readerly desire. For the next seven years, he read voraciously, while working as a project coordinator at a construction site. He began to read after moving to Bahrain in 1992. Other than the Bible, which was read every night before supper in his orthodox Syrian Christian household, he had read no other books in his childhood. Benyaminthe Malayali writer Benny Danieldid not grow up a reader.
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