»Jasmine Days«, 2018) and ✺l-Arabian Novel Factory« (2014) shed light on the background of Arab Spring. Benyamin’s novels »Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal« (2014 Eng. ✺adujeevitham« is now part of the curriculum of several Indian universities. Najeeb’s story is based on real events that inspired Benyamin to give a voice to the many people who share Najeeb’s fate. Najeeb spends several months in prison before being deported to India by the Saudi Arabian authorities. Finally, after three years, he manages to escape with the help of a Somali worker from the neighboring farm and reaches Al-Bathaa, where he is arrested by the police. During this time, he builds a special relationship with the goats he herds, sharing his dreams, desires and hopes with them. Constantly hungry and without knowing the language, people, or places, he has to do grueling work and lives under constant surveillance. From then on, he ekes out a slave-like existence as a goat herder in the Saudi desert. But Najeeb falls into a trap right at Riyadh airport and is taken to a farm by a rich Arab animal farm supervisor. He wants to earn money in the Gulf States to send home. In this book, Benyamin describes the life of Indian worker Najeeb Muhammad in Saudi Arabia in four parts (prison, desert, escape, and refuge). »Goat Days«, 2012), which he wrote in Malayalam, the language of Kerala, earned him the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and was on the longlist of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the shortlist of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 1992 to 2013 and eventually returned to Kerala.īenyamin is the author of circa twenty books in various genres, from short stories to novels to memoirs. Benyamin was born as Benny Daniel in 1971 in Kulanada in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

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