This collection won the Gita Hiranyan Endowment Award instituted by Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Ankanam Literary Award. Her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002. Meera's first published work was a story submitted to Mathrubhumi, a magazine, in 2000. A series on children won her the Deepalaya National Journalism Award for Child Rights in 2001. This series also won the Chowara Parameswaran Award instituted by Kerala Press Academy. She won the PUCL Human Rights National Award for Journalism in 1998 for an investigative series on the plight of women labourers in Kerala. During her journalistic career, she published many special stories which won her numerous awards and recognitions. She was the senior sub-editor of Malayala Manorama when she resigned. In 2006, following publication of several stories, Meera gave up journalism to take up writing as a full-time occupation. In 1993, she joined as a journalist in Kottayam-based Malayalam daily Malayala Manorama, and was the first female journalist to be hired at the newspaper. Their only daughter Shruti was a residential student at the Rishi Valley School, Andhra Pradesh. Dileep, who is a journalist with Malayala Manorama.

Meera lives in Kottayam with her husband M.S. She passed her master's degree in Communicative English from Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. She completed her predegree from D.B College, Sasthamcotta. Meera was born in Sasthamkotta, Kollam district in Kerala as the daughter of Ramachandran Pillai and Amritakumari, both professors. It was also shortlisted for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It received several awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award ( 2013), Odakkuzhal Award (2013), Vayalar Award (2014) and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award (2015). Her novel Aarachaar (2012) is widely regarded as one of the best literary works produced in Malayalam language. She won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her short-story, Ave Maria. Since then she has published five collections of short stories, two novellas, five novels and two children's books. She started writing fiction in 2001 and her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002.

She worked as a journalist in Malayala Manorama but later resigned to concentrate more on writing. She was born in Sasthamkotta, Kollam district in Kerala.

Meera (born 19 February 1970) is an Indian author and journalist, who writes in Malayalam. Novelist, short story writer, journalist, screenplay writer, columnist Sasthamkotta, Kollam district, Kerala, India

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