WRITER

Balamani Amma

1909 - 2004

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Nalapat Balamani Amma (19 July 1909 – 29 September 2004) was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. Amma (Mother), Muthassi (Grandmother), and Mazhuvinte Katha (The story of the Axe) are some of her well-known works. She was a recipient of many awards and honours, including the Padma Bhushan, Saraswati Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Ezhuthachan Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balamani Amma has received more than 815,079 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Balamani Amma is the 4,319th most popular writer (up from 4,469th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from India (down from 517th in 2019) and the 81st most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 820k

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Amma
1967
Thirty poems
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Balamani Amma ranks 4,319 out of 7,302. Before her are Dmitry Furmanov, Reynold A. Nicholson, Dobrodeia of Kiev, Nirmal Verma, Uğur Mumcu, and Maurice Sachs. After her are Ivanka Trump, Philip Arthur Fisher, Robin Sharma, Mike Resnick, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Louise-Victorine Ackermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Balamani Amma ranks 247. Before her are Jerzy Różycki, Toshiko Yuasa, Arnold Badjou, Estella Agsteribbe, Milovan Jakšić, and Manuel Olivares. After her are Wilhelmina von Bremen, Saunders Mac Lane, Ahmed Bahnini, Szymon Goldberg, Henock Abrahamsson, and Clara Calamai. Among people deceased in 2004, Balamani Amma ranks 189. Before her are Alan Brown, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, José Omar Pastoriza, Paul Sweezy, Klara Rumyanova, and Alicia Markova. After her are Philip Arthur Fisher, Claude Nougaro, Oscar Heisserer, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Karel Kachyňa, and Abdul Rahman Munif.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balamani Amma ranks 538 out of 1,861. Before her are Amjad Khan (1940), Krishan Chander (1914), Mohan Bhagwat (1950), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (1959), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), and Nirmal Verma (1929). After her are Jagjivan Ram (1908), Shahu I (1682), Vasundhara Raje (1953), Anna Kashfi (1934), Shabana Azmi (1950), and N. T. Rama Rao (1923).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Balamani Amma ranks 81. Before her are Mahadev Desai (1892), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Krishan Chander (1914), and Nirmal Verma (1929). After her are Raghunath Murmu (1905), Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), Yashpal (1903), Hasrat Mohani (1875), Kamala Surayya (1934), and Jayakanthan (1934).

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