"Benyamin is a novelist and short-story writer in Malayalam. His novel Aadujeevitham, which has been reprinted more than a hundred times and has sold over two lakh copies, won him the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 and has been translated into many languages. The English translation, Goat Days, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2018, his novel Jasmine Days won the JCB Prize for Literature and the Crossword Book Award for fiction in translation. The follow-up to it, Al Arabian Novel Factory, was published in 2019. Body and Blood, the English translation of his novel Shareerasastram, was published in 2020. Swarup B.R. is an independent brand consultant and one of the founder directors of Stark Communications Pvt. Ltd., the most awarded advertising agency in South India. His translation of Benyamin’s novel Shareerasastram was published in 2020 as Body and Blood."
<p>"‘No matter which story I say is true, you will still believe only the version that you choose to.’</p><p>A young journalist in Kerala who wakes up to find he’s become Gabriel García Márquez…</p><p>A one-time zookeeper in search of a lost tiger cub in a war-torn Arab city…</p><p>A man in a Maharashtra village who must keep thieving because of his caste…</p><p>Featuring JCB Prize-winning author Benyamin’s finest short fiction, Márquez, EMS, Gulam and Others brings together people, places, lives and times. Translated brilliantly by Swarup B.R., these stories unravel, with deep sensitivity, the human condition across fault lines of class, caste, colour and country, of illusion and reality. They make you ponder about the world we live in, the people who inhabit it, the borders separating us – and the truths and lies we tell ourselves and others."</p>
