2012 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards

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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
Awarded forOutstanding books of literary merit
Date11 July 2013
Location Thrissur
Country India
Presented by Kerala Sahitya Akademi
First awarded1958
  2011  · Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award ·  2013  

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]

Contents

Winners

CategoryRecipientWork
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

Endowments

Fellowships

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