Vishnu Narayanan Namboodiri and Punathil Kunjabdulla will get this year’s academy fellowships.Ettumanoor Somadasan, Erumeli Parameswaran Pillai, G. Balakrishnan Nair and P.V.K. Panayal won awards for overall contribution.
The winners are
Novel: Benyamin (Aadujeevitham)Short-story: K।R। Meera (Ave Maria)Poetry: N. K. Desam (Mudra)Biography/autobiography: T.J.S. George (Ghoshayatra)Travelogue: Raveendran (Ente Keralam)Translation: K. Sachithanandan (Padinjaran Kavithakal)Drama: K. M. Raghavan Nambyar (Swathanthryam thanne jeevitham)Literary criticism: K.S. Ravikumar (Aakhyanathinte Adarukal)Scholarly literature: Vijaya Kumar Menon (Sthalam Kalam Kala)Children’s literature: A. Vijayan (Muyalchevi) Humour: Marshal (Ronald Reaganum Balan Mashum)