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The film follows the lives of two men – Shanguni (played by Suraj Venjaramoodu) and Madhavan (Vinayakan) who are at odds with each other.
The winner was decided by a panel comprising writers Sarah Joseph, V J James and V Raman Kutty.
The book is a brilliant narrative woven around the lives of the oppressed people in the upper Kuttanad region of central Kerala.
Hareesh said that the reason why Virus wasn’t an overwhelming success was because it didn’t portray Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s efforts.
Now in its third edition, the Prize carries an amount of Rs 25 lakh and is awarded each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer.
Hareesh had to withdraw the novel from a prominent weekly, which was serialising it, following threats from a section of people who found some of the content of the fictional work offensive to the Hindu religion.
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