Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions

The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to Malayalam writers for their overall contributions to Malayalam literature. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.  ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Awardees

Year	Winner
1993	M. R. Bhattathiripad
	K. P. Narayana Pisharody
	A. P. Udhayabhanu
	P. C. Devassia
1996	Pala Narayanan Nair
	Mary John Koothattukulam
	M. N. Sathyaardhi
	Kadathanat Madhavi Amma
1997	M. H. Sastrigal
	V. Anandakuttan Nair
	Nagavally R. S. Kurup
1998	K. Ravi Varma
	M. S. Menon
	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
	Olappamanna Subramanian Namboothirippad
	K. T. Muhammed
	Vettoor Raman Nair
	G. Vivekanandan
1999	N. P. Mohammed
	Puthussery Ramachandran
	V. V. K. Valath
	Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair
	Thirunalloor Karunakaran
	Pavanan
2000	M. Krishnan Nair
2001	Kunjunni Mash
	M. Achuthan
	Aymanam Krisha Kaimal
2002	M. K. Sanu
	Narendra Prasad
	S. K. Marar
	I. K. K. Menon
2003	Kakkanadan
	M. Sukumaran
	M. N. Paloor
2004	Unnikrishnan Puthoor
	Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
	Panmana Ramachandran Nair
2005	Chemmanam Chacko
	E. Vasu
	K. S. Narayana Pillai
2006	Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
	K. Panoor
2009	Ettumanoor Somadasan
	Erumeli Parameswaran Pillai
	G. Balakrishnan Nair
	P. V. K. Panayal
2010	Omchery N. N. Pillai
	S. Ramesan Nair
	K. Gopalakrishnan
	Malayath Appunni
	Sarah Thomas
	Joseph Mattam
2011 [4]	Chathanath Achuthanunni
	P. T. Chacko
	K. B. Sreedevi
	Joseph Vyttila
2012 [5]	K. P. Sankaran
	Karur Sasi
	G. Priyadarshan
	K. M. Govi
2013 [6]	P. R. Nathan
	S. K. Vasanthan
	D. Sreeman Namboothiri
	M. D. Rathnamma
2014 [7]	Sreedharan Champad
	Velayudhan Panikkassery
	George Irumbayam
	Methil Radhakrishnan
	Desamangalam Ramakrishnan
	Chandrakala S. Kammath
2015 [8]	O. V. Usha
	Mundoor Sethumadhavan
	V. Sukumaran
	T. B. Venugopala Panicker
	Prayar Prabhakaran
	K. Sugathan
2016 [9]	Iyyamcode Sreedharan
	C. R. Omanakuttan
	Lalitha Lenin
	Jose Punnamparambil
	P. K. Parakkadavu
	Pooyappally Thankappan
2017 [10]	Pazhavila Rameshan
	M. P. Parameswaran
	Kunjappa Pattanur
	K. G. Paulose
	K. Ajitha
	C. L. Jose
2018 [11]	Scaria Zacharia
	O. M. Anujan
	S. Rajasekharan
	Manamboor Rajan Babu
	Nalini Bekal
2019 [12]	Dalit Bandhu N. K. Jose
	Palakkeezh Narayanan
	P. Appukuttan
	Rosemary
	U. Kalanathan
	C. P. Aboobacker
2020 [13]	K. K. Kochu
	Mampuzha Kumaran
	K. R. Mallika
	Sidharthan Paruthikad
	Chavara K. S. Pillai
	M. A. Rahman
2021 [14]	K. Jayakumar
	Kadathanattu Narayanan
	Janamma Kunjunni
	Kaviyoor Rajagopalan
	Gita Krishnankutty
	K. A. Jayaseelan
2022 [15]	John Samuel
	K. P. Sudheera
	Rathi Saksena
	P. K. Sukumaran
	Sreekrishnapuram Krishnan Kutty
	Pallippuram Murali
2023 [16]	K. V. Kumaran
	Prema Jayakumar
	P. K. Gopi
	Bakkalam Damodaran
	Rajan Thiruvoth

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