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| Born | 1962 Vattamkulam, Kerala, India |
| Occupation | Poet, author, teacher |
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P. P. Ramachandran is a Malayalam poet.
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| Born | 1962 Vattamkulam, Kerala, India |
| Occupation | Poet, author, teacher |
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P. P. Ramachandran is a Malayalam poet.
His poems are collected in two books, Kanekkane (Thrissur: Current Books) and Rantay Murichathu (Cut into Two) (Thrissur: Current Books).
His collection Kanekkane won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in the year 2003. [1] Katte Kadale won the P. Kunhiraman Nair Poetry Award in 2013. He received the Cherusseri Award in 2014. [2] He has also received awards established in memory of V. T. Kumaran (1991), [3] Cherukad (1995), Kunjupillai, Changampuzha and V. K. Unnikrishnan.
He is a high school teacher in A.V.High School, Ponnani. He lives in Vattamkulam, a small town in Malappuram district.
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