Nasuralla Mambrol hails from Vanimel, a village located in the district of Kozhikode/Calicut, Keralam state. He is working as a guest lecturer in Nadapuram Government College. He did his schooling in a Government school and the medium of instruction was Malayalam. He graduated in B.A. English from Islahiya College in Chennamangallur. He did his post-graduation in MA English Literature from Jamal Mohammed College, Trichy. He completed his M.Phil. from Kannur University.
Thousands of people read his blog and they are not from India. He has readers from countries like England, U.S, Canada, Germany, France and Turkey. Literariness.org deals mainly with Literary Theory and criticism. While preparing for his UGC/NET exam, Nasuralla Mambrol realized that there is a dearth of standard exam study material. This realization led him to create the blog Literariness which came into being on March 16th, 2016. It began as an ordinary blog hosted by WordPress and after one year of its inception it became a full-fledged virtual space with Nasuralla purchasing the domain name – literariness.org. (He secured the third position in the all India UGC/NET exam conducted by the CBSE)
One person who inspired Nasuralla is his own professor from Kannur University Dr.K.K. Kunhammed, who is now the Head, Dept. of English, Kannur University. Literariness.org today has around 200,000 visitors every month. The blog contains the latest trending topics in literary theory like, Affect theory, Zoo criticism and captivity narrative. The blog also provides e-books and journals. There are more than 2,000 books and audio lectures. There are also numerous study notes and digital documents. All these, you get for free. Nasuralla has published articles in The Guardian, Month Review, Ceasefire Magazine, and the Fem Magazine published by University of California. Literariness.org is prescribed as an online reference for the courses offered by Yale University, Wisconsin University, Mac Evan University.
This article is a translation of the online news that appeared in the online news portal of Madhyamam.
