Thomas Joseph is a Malayalam writer, born in Eloor of Ernakulam District on June 8, 1954. He is the son of Thomas Vadaykkal and Mary Vellayil. He wrote his first short story when he was a 5th standard student and started publishing stories in Malayalam weeklies during his high school and college period. His story "Athbhuta-samasya", was published in the magazine Saketam, under the editorialship of Narendra Prasad and V P Sivakumar. Received Mrigaya magazine’s ‘Mrigaya Award-1984’ through the Readers’ Gallop poll. Wikipedia