Charu Nivedita

Works available in English

1. Zero Degree
2. Marginal Man
3. To Byzantium: A Turkey Travelogue
4. Unfaithfully Yours
5. Morgue Keeper
6. Towards a Third Cinema

   Novels

7. Existentialism and Fancy Baniyan - Tamil / Malayalam
8. Zero Degree - Tamil / English / Malayalam
9. Rasa leela
10. Kaamarooba Kathaigal
11. Thegam
12. Marginal Man - Tamil / English

    Short stories

13. Carnataka Murasum Naveena Tamil Ilakiyathin Meethana Oru Amaipiyal Aayvum - Collection of short stories, published along with Nagaarchunan and Sylvia aka M.D.Muthukumarasamy
14. Nano
15. Madumitha Sonna Pambu Kathaigal
16. Shakespeare-in Minnanjal Mugavari
17. Kadal Kanni - Translated short stories from world Literature
18. Oorin miga azhagaana Pen – Translated short stories from world Literature
19. Muthukkal Pathu - Selected short stories
20. Morgue Keeper - Selected short stories in English in Kindle
21. Diabolically Yours in Exotic Gothic Volume 5

    Collection of articles

22. Konal Pakkangal - Part 1
23. Konal Pakkankal - Part 2
24. Konal Pakkangal - Part 3
25. Dhisai Ariyum Paravaigal
26. Moodupani Saalai
27. Varambu Meeriya Pradhigal
28. Thappu Thalangal
29. Kalagam Kaadhal Isai
30. Dante-yin Siruththai
31. Yenakku Kuzhandhaigalai Pidikadhu
32. Kadavulum Nanum
33. Kalaiyum Kaamamum
34. Kadavulum Saithaanum
35. Sarasam Sallabam Saamiyar
36. Vaazhvadhu eppadi
37. Ketta vaarththai
38. Malawi endroru Desam
39. Azaadhi Azaadhi Azaadhi
40. Adhigaaram Amaidhi Sudhanthiram
41. Kanavugalin mozhipeyarppaalan
42. Manamkoththi paravai
43. Enge Un Kadavul?
44. Kadaisip Pakkangal
45. Vetrulagavaasiyin Diarykkuripugal
46. Pazhuppu Nirap Pakkangal - Part 1
47. Pazhuppu Nirap Pakkangal - Part 2
48. Pazhuppu Nirap Pakkangal - Part 3
49. Nadodiyin Natkuripugal
50. Medusavin Mathukoppai
51. Kanavu Cappucino Konjam Chatting
52. To Byzantium - A Turkey Travelogue - Tamil/English
53. Unfaithfully Yours - Collection of articles

    Play

54. Rendaam aattam

    Cinema review

55. Latin American Cinema
56. Cinema: Alainthuthiribavanin Azhagiyal
57. Theeraakaadhali
58. Cinema Cinema
59. Naragaththilirundhu oru kural
60. Kanavugalin Nadanam
61. Towards a Third Cinema
62. Oliyin Perunchalanam

    Collection of interviews

63. Ozhunginmaiyin Veriyaattam
64. Ichchaigalin Irulveli

    Question and Answers

65. Arugil Varaadhey
66. Aram Porul Inbam

    Awards and accolades

• Zero Degree was inducted into the prestigious '50 Writers, 50 Books - The Best of Indian Fiction', edited by Chandra Siddan and Pradeep Sebastian, published by HarperCollins.
• He was selected as one among 'Top Ten Indians of the Decade 2001 - 2010' by The Economic Times.
• Zero Degree was long-listed for the 2013 edition of Jan Michalski Prize.
• Zero Degree was selected as one of the fifteen incredible Indian novels.
• The Hindu included him in its list of 'Manathil Pathintha Mugangal 25' in its Diwali Malar 2014.

  Literary contemporaries on Charu Nivedita

• Vahni Capildeo places Charu Nivedita on par with Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce and Jean Genet, in her article in the Caribbean Review of Books.
• In his foreword to the Malayalam translation of Zero Degree, Paul Zacharia wrote, "It is like an open experimental laboratory. Amidst the smoke, noxious vapors, and beautiful imagery, I experienced a wondrous journey."
• Tarun Tejpal wrote that Zero Degree is remarkable for its experimental voice and its varying and shifting tonalities.
• Anil Menon considers Zero Degree bold and ambitious.
• Translator Jason Grunebaum considers Zero Degree "wildly exciting".

  Public events

Literary festivals

• Charu Nivedita was one of the invitees for the 2010 and 2011 editions of Almost Island Dialogues, New Delhi.
• He was one of the invitees for the Hay Festival 2010, Thiruvananthapuram.
• Hay Festival 2011, Thiruvananthapuram was inaugurated at the British Deputy High Commission, Chennai by Mike Nithavrianakis, the then Deputy High Commissioner, followed by a reading of an excerpt from Charu Nivedita's works.
• He was one of the invitees for the 2012 edition of Jaipur Literary Festival.
• He was felicitated at the Twenty Sixth Anniversary Celebration of Katha, a monthly literary magazine of Sambad at Bhubaneswar on 10 February 2013.
• He was one of the invitees for the Brahmaputra Literary Festival 2017.
• He was one of the panelists in Kerala Literature Festival 2017.
• He was one of the speakers the Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform 2018

  Film festivals

• Charu Nivedita was invited as the Guest of Honour on 10 March 2002 at the National Folklore Support Centre Folk Festival, Chennai.
• He inaugurated the Third SIO Samvedana Vedhi International Film Festival, 2010, organised by the Students Islamic Organisation of India wing of the University of Calicut.
• He inaugurated the International Film Festival of Tamil Nadu 2010, Chennai, organised by the International Tamil Film Academy and Seventh Channel Communications.
• He ianugurated the Fourth Panchajanyam International Film Festival 2011 at Chittur, Kerala.
• He inaugurated the valedictory session of the Third International Film Festival 2011, Kochi, which was jointly organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Heart Light Association and the Ernakulam District Information Office.
• At the 2013 Chennai Rainbow Film Festival, presented by Alliance Française de Madras, he participated in the 'Panel Discussion on Media Portrayal of LGBT issues.'

  Lectures and meets

• Charu Nivedita delivered the 2009 Paul Chirakkarode Memorial Lecture at Kottayam.
• He was invited to speak at the valedictory function of ‘Thattakaperuma,' a series of programmes to observe the second death anniversary of Kovilan, Malayalam writer at Thrissur on 3 June 2012.
• He delivered the commemoration speech at the 'Bob Marley Cultural Fest' on 11 May 2010 at Kochi.
• He was one of the panelists at the Outlook Speak Out debate 2010, Chennai on the subject 'Moral Policing in a Democracy'.

  Social activism

• He was invited as the chief guest of Sambavas' annual celebrations at Chalakudy in Kerala on 11 May 2008.
• He inaugurated a meeting and spoke among the adivasis protesting against wanton clay mining at Velichikala, near Kollam.
• He addressed a gathering of Plachimada villagers who were on a relay hunger strike against Coca-Cola's wanton over-drawing of groundwater and polluting water bodies.
• He marched with villagers protesting against Coca-Cola and Pepsi's wanton overdrawing of groundwater at Kanjikode, near Palakkad on 29 August 2008.
• He inaugurated a symposium on Mullaiperiyar Dam issue organized by 'Uyiru', a joint cultural forum of Tamil and Malayalam writers and social activists on 7 July 2012 at Kottayam.

  'Zero Degree' in Academics

• Zero Degree was on the curriculum in Spring 2010 in a Comparative World Literature course, taught by Jordan Smith, at California State University, Long Beach.
• University of Rochester has included Zero Degree in its translation program.
• The Malayalam translation of Zero Degree is in the curriculum for postgraduate students at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

  Quotations

• "I convert my schizoid into an art."
• "There is nothing like planning in my literature, at any point of time. It's something which gets written between the schizoid state and dreams. Hence, with this same reason, I cannot comment on my writing. Like how I don't accept the roles of a father, a son, a lover, a friend – I despise the role of a writer too. My writing is nothing but the brush strokes of a person trying to escape from hell."
• "Hatred is a disease."