Mohamed Riyas
K. Mohamed Riyas, also known as Anisha Maraikkayar, is a storyteller from Kottaipattinam, India. He is currently based in Singapore, where he works as an information technology professional. His debut short story collection, Attar (2021), received wide attention in contemporary Tamil literary circles. His second collection, Sigari Markkam, further established his distinctive narrative voice. He recently published his first novel, Effendi.
Riyas’s fiction explores migrant lives and landscapes shaped by movement across Malaya, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, bringing marginal and unfamiliar terrains into Tamil literary discourse.
