Venu V. Desom

Venu V. Desom (Malayalam:വേണു വി ദേശം; born May 1959 at Desom village, Aluva, Kerala, India) is a Malayalam poet, novelist, lyricist, and translator. He was the first Malayalam poet to write gazals in Malayalam. Apart from original works many of which have received Awards, he has also translated works of various classic writers into Malayalam, including those of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Leo Tolstoy, Khalil Gibran, Osho, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Vladimir Korolenko.