Kerala poet and Indian poet
Yusufali Kechery was a poet,film lyricist,film producer and director from Kerala,India. He wrote during the modern era of Malayalam poetry and won the Odakkuzhal Award,the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award and the Vallathol Award.
Panayanthitta Kunhiraman Nair,also known as Mahakavi P,was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. He was known for his romantic poems which detailed the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in South India as well as the realities of his life and times. He received the inaugural Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1959. He was also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Chandrashekhara Kambara is a prominent Indian poet,playwright,folklorist,film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akademi,country's premier literary institution,after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993). He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays,and poems,in a similar style as in the works of D.R. Bendre.
Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup (1902–1980) was an Indian poet,playwright,translator,lexicographer and story writer of Malayalam. He was the author of a number of poetry anthologies,besides other works,and he translated Abhijnana Shakuntalam,Tulsi Ramayana,Tirukkuṛaḷ,the poems of Subramania Bharati and two cantos of The Light of Asia of Edwin Arnold into Malayalam. He also contributed in the preparation of a dictionary,Kairali Kosham. A recipient of the Odakkuzhal Award and Thirukural Award,Kurup received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1966. Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their annual award in 1974.
Thottathimyalil Mathew Abraham is an Indian theatre director and playwright. He is the former Vice Chairman of the Kerala Sangeetha Nadaka Academy. He is also the recipient of the Kerala Sangeetha Nadaka Academy awards for playwriting,Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for the play Peruthachan and the Government of Kerala award for best play direction.
C. N. Sreekantan Nair (1928–1976) was an Indian independence activist,a Malayalam writer,short story writer,playwright and screenwriter,best known for his Ramayana trilogy –Kanchana Sita,Saketham and Lankalakshmi. His oeuvre consists of 10 plays,4 short story anthologies,book of non-fiction and collected works. Kerala Sahitya Akademi awarded him their annual award for drama in 1962. He was also a recipient of the M. P. Paul Prize.
Tatapuram Sukumaran was a Malayalam writer,born in Kaloor,Kochi,Kerala,India.
Vadakke Valath Krishnan,commonly known as V. V. K. Valath,was an Indian writer,poet,toponymist and historian of Malayalam language. One of the pioneers of toponymy in Kerala,he focused on the origin of place names in the state as the subject of his works which are known for their attention to historic detail. He wrote poems,short-stories,novels,and over 400 historical articles and his most notable works are Rigvedathilude,Keralathile Stalacharitrangal,and poetry anthologies,Idimuzhakkam and Minnal Velicham. Kerala Sahitya Akademi awarded him their annual award for overall contributions in 1999. He was also a fellow of the Place Names Society and a recipient of the Pandit Karuppan Award.
Cherukad Govinda Pisharodi,commonly known as Cherukad,was a Malayalam-language playwright,novelist,poet and political activist,associated with the Communist movement in Kerala state,India.
Prabha Varma is a poet,lyricist,journalist and television presenter.
Omchery N. N. Pillai is a Malayalam–language playwright,novelist and poet from Kerala,India. He has written nine full-length plays,more than 80 one-act plays and a few novels. His plays are noted for their bold experiments in form and technique as well as the uncommon vision inherent in many of the themes. He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award twice:in 1972 for the play Pralayam and in 2010 for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature.
Gopala Pillai Sankara Pillai,better known as G. Sankara Pillai,was an Indian playwright,literary critic,and director,known to be one of the pioneers of modern Malayalam theatre. A proponent of total theater,he was the founder of Nataka Kalari movement in Kerala and the chairman of the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi. He was a recipient of a number of awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1964 for the work Rail Palangal and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for the best playwright in 1979.
Aarachaar is a Malayalam novel written by K. R. Meera. Originally serialised in Madhyamam Weekly in continuous 53 volumes,the novel was published as a book by DC Books in 2012. It was translated by J. Devika into English under the title Hangwoman:Everyone Loves a Good Hanging.
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi to Malayalam writers for writing poetry of literary merit. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi to writers for translating a work from a foreign language to Malayalam. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
A. Santha Kumar was an Indian Malayalam language playwright and screenplay writer from Kerala state,South India.He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 2010 for the work Maram Peyyunnu.
Ibrahim Vengara is a Malayalam–language playwright from Kerala,India. He has written over 50 radio plays,25 plays and 20 monologues.
R. Narayana Panickar was an Indian essayist,playwright,translator,lexicographer,novelist and historian of Malayalam. He was credited with over 100 books but the best known among them are the six-volume work,Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram,a comprehensive history of Malayalam literature up to 1954 and Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu,a lexicon. He also wrote a number of novels and translated several classics of Tamil literature including Purananuru,Akanaṉūṟu and Silappatikaram. Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their annual award in 1955.
Chakkalakal Lonappan Jose,better identified as C. L. Jose,is an Indian playwright of Malayalam literature. One of the pioneers of popular Malayalam theatre and a former chairman of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi,Jose is the author of 36 plays,75 one-act plays,one children's play and Ormakalkku Urakkamilla,his autobiography. He is a recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama,Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions and the S. L. Puram Sadanandan Puraskaram of Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi.
