SOURCE: THE HINDU

Sarah Thomas has seventeen novels and more than hundred short stories to her credit. She won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards in 1979 for her novel ‘Narmadipudava’ and in 2010 for overall contribution to Malayalam literature.

Writer Sarah Thomas, who passed away here on Friday at the age of 89, was someone who let only her writing do the talking. A quiet observer of life around her, she weaved in all that she imbibed into her seventeen novels and more than hundred short stories, some of which were potent enough to stir the conscience of the oppressing classes.