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The novel was adapted into a movie in 1973 by Thoppil Bhasi. His next notable work was Enippadikal ( Rungs of the Ladder), published in 1964, which traces the careerism of an ambitious bureaucrat whose lust for power and position becomes his own undoing. The film adaptation, directed by Ramu Kariat, won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1965. Chemmeen was translated into 19 world languages and adapted into film in 15 countries. The novel and its film adaptation, also titled Chemmeen (1965), earned him national and international fame.

It told a tragic love story against the backdrop of a fishing village in Alappuzha.

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In 1956, Pillai published his love epic Chemmeen (Prawns), which was a departure from his earlier line of realism and the novel received critical acclaim, becoming the first post-colonial Indian novel to be translated into English the English translation was accepted into the Indian Series of UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Subramaniam from a screenplay by Thakazhi himself, received a certificate of merit at the National Film Awards in 1958. The film adaptation, directed and produced by P.

His political novel, Randidangazhi (Two Measures, 1948), projected the evils of the feudal system that prevailed in Kerala then, especially in Kuttanad. Thottiyude Makan (Scavenger's Son), a story about a scavenger who strives unsuccessfully to keep his son from continuing the family profession was published in 1947 and is known to be the first realistic novel in Malayalam literature. Pillai's literary works are known to portray the society in Kerala in the mid-20th century. This was the first of his 39 novels he also published 21 anthologies composed of over 600 short stories, two plays and four memoirs. After many short stories, he wrote Thyagathinu Prathiphalam ( Fruits of sacrifice) in 1934 which primarily dealt with the social injustices prevalent during that time. His first short story was Daridran (The Poor) which was published in 1929. Pillai, whose works would later earn him the moniker, Kerala Maupassant, started writing at an early age and his associations with Kainikkara Kumara Pillai during his school days and with Kesari Balakrishna Pillai during his Thiruvananthapuram days are known to have helped the aspiring writer in his career, it was the latter who introduced him to European literature.

He died on April 10, 1999, at the age of 86 (A week before his 87th birthday), survived by his wife, who died on June 1, 2011, and their five children. Pillai married Thekkemuri Chembakasseril Chirakkal Kamalakshy Ammai, affectionately called by him as Katha, in 1934 and the couple had one son and four daughters. He presided Kerala Sahitya Akademi and was also associated with Sahitya Akademi as a member of its general council. It was during this time, he was attracted by the communist movement and he participated in the functioning of the Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham (Writers' Cooperative Society). Parameshwaran Pillai at the munsif court of Ambalappuzha. He started his career as a reporter at Kerala Kesari daily but moved to legal career by practising under a lawyer named P. After passing 10th standard, he moved to Trivandrum and passed the pleader examination from the Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. Subsequently, he did his high school education, first at a high school in Vaikom and later at a school in Karuvatta, where he had the opportunity to study under Kainikkara Kumara Pillai, who was the headmaster of the school during that period. After early tutoring by his father and Chakkampurathu Kittu Asan, a local teacher, Pillai had his primary education at a local school in Thakazhi and passed 7th standard examination from the English School in Ambalappuzha.

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai was born on Apin Thakazhy, a small village in Kuttanad in present-day Alappuzha district of Kerala to Poypallikalathil Sankara Kurup, who was the brother of Guru Kunchu Kurup, a doyen of Kathakali and Aripurathuveettil Parvathy Amma.