N. P. Mohammed
N. P. Mohammed (1 July 1928 – 3 January 2003), popularly known by his initials N. P., was an Indian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Malayalam language.N. P. Mohammed was born on 1 July 1929 at Koondungal, in the present-day Kozhikode district of the south Indian state of Kerala to N. P. Abu, a freedom fighter, and Imbichi Pathumma Beevi.[5] Mohammed was known to have been among the group of writers such as M. T. Vasudevan Nair, O. V. Vijayan, Kakkanadan, and Kamala Das who pioneered modernist movement in Malayalam fiction in the 1950s.[7] He co-wrote one his novels, Arabi Ponnu (The Arab Gold), with M. T. Vasudevan Nair; it was reported that both writers stayed together in a rented house in Karuvarakkundu village, Kozhikode for a period of two weeks to complete the work.His last work, Muhammad Abdurrahman, a fictional biography on the life of the noted Indian independence activist, Mohammed Abdur Rahiman, was found as manuscript after his death and was published posthumously.