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Padmabhushan Nalappat Balamani Amma (b. 1909) is a Malayalli poet. Considered by many to be one of the best Malayalli poets, she has won the highest literary medal in India, the Saraswathi Samman . She was married to newspaper editor, V.M. Nair , and is the mother of the writer Kamala Das who has translated one of her mother's poems, The Pen, which describes the loneliness of a mother. While delivering the Balamaniyamma remembrance speech at the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri , described the late poet, Balamaniyamma, as the "prophet of human glory" adding that her poetry had been an inspiration to him.
Amma, Balamani
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