Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding books of literary merit |
Date | 11 July 2013 |
Location | Thrissur |
Country | India |
Presented by | Kerala Sahitya Akademi |
First awarded | 1958 |
The 2012 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award was announced on 11 July 2013. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The Akademi fellowships and the awards for overall contribution were announced in October 2013. [6]
Category | Recipient | Work |
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Poetry | S. Joseph | Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu |
Novel | E. Santhosh Kumar | Andhakaranazhi |
Story | Satheesh Babu Payyannur | Peramaram |
Drama | M. N. Vinayakumar | Mariman Kanni |
Literary criticism | N. K. Ravindran | Pennezhuthunna Jeevitham |
Autobiography/Biography | S. Jayachandran Nair | Ente Pradakshina Vazhikal |
Travelogue | Santhosh George Kulangara | Baltic Diary |
Humour | P. P. Hameed | Oru Nano Kinavu |
Scholarly literature | Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan | Samskaramudrakal |
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Award for Children’s literature | N. P. Hafiz Mohamad | Kuttipattalathinte Kerala Paryadanam |
Translation | Dr. S. Sreenivasan | Marubhoomi (Translation of Désert by J. M. G. Le Clézio) |
Overall Contribution | K. P. Sankaran Karur Sasi G. Priyadarshan K. M. Govi |
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