The author of Jasmine Days which won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2018, Benyamin is a Malayalam novelist and a short story writer. Adujeevitham , which won the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 2009 has been translated to many languages. The English translation of the novel, titled Goat Days appeared in the long list of Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and in the shortlist of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013. Jasmine Days has been longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Award for the year 2020.