Moustache, originally written in Malayalam as Meesha, by S. He is employed as a village assistant at Kaipuzha in Kottayam.

The story Maoist from the collection has been adapted by Lijo Jose Pellissery for his film Jallikattu, the film was India’s official entry at the 2020 Academy Awards. The 2018 film Aedan was based on one of the three stories in Hareesh’s short story collection Adam.

Meesha was translated by Crossword Award winner, Jayasree Kalathil and the book was published under the title, Moustache, by Harper Perennial India in 2020. The same year, he brought out another short story anthology, Appan. Later, the novel was published in book format by DC Books. In 2018, his debut novel, Meesha, was serialized in Mathrubhumi weekly, but he had to withdraw it due to pressures from Hindu right-wing groups. Four years later, he published his second short story collection titled Aadam, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award of 2016. This was followed by a Malayalam translation of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, which was published by DC Books in 2012. Hareesh published his first book in 2005, a short story anthology titled Rasavidyayude Charithram (‘The History of Alchemy’), which won him the Geetha Hiranyan Endowment Award of Kerala Sahithya Akademi.

Hareesh was born on at Neendoor in Kottayam district in the South Indian state of Kerala. Hareesh's unique style of storytelling, which mixes astute social observation with an irreverent and sarcastic tone, makes these stories invigorating, and pushes the craft of the short story to new and refreshing realms.S. Translated from the Malayalam, the collection presents nine unusual stories about ordinary people, their passions and their diverse destinies in a world where humans, animals and nature collide. Hareesh's Adam explores the more difficult of human emotions-lust, anger, jealousy, vengeance and greed. Hareesh who won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020 for his debut novel Moustacheįour Belgian Malinois puppies, raised by an ex-serviceman, who end up in four different life situations two men who play a game made out of death notices clipped from newspapers a man who exploits his friend's disability to satisfy his own bestial needs a government employee who is intoxicated by the taste of wild meat and sinks deeper and deeper into the toxic world of hunting two buffaloes who break away from their butcher, leading an entire village to chase after them an old man who rejoices in the death of a sworn enemy who was once his friend. QUICK TAKE: Translation of brilliant stories by S.

Moustache by s hareesh