Balamani Amma
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Padmabhushan Nalappat Balamani Amma (19 July, 1909 - 29 September, 2004) was a Malayalli poet. Considered by many to be one of the best Malayalli poets, she won the highest literary medal in India, the Saraswathi Samman. She was married to newspaper editor, V.M. Nair, and was the mother of the writer Kamala Das who has translated one of her mother's poems, The Pen, which describes the loneliness of a mother. While delivering the Balamaniyamma remembrance speech at the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri, described the late poet, Balamaniyamma, as the "prophet of human glory" adding that her poetry had been an inspiration to him.