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Poet Attur Attoor Ravi Varma has been selected for this year’s Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the State government’s highest literary honour. The award, which includes a purse of Rs.1.5 lakh, a citation, and a statuette, was decided by a committee consisting of Kerala Sahitya Akademi, President of Perumbadavam Sreedharan (Chairman), D. Babu Paul, C.V. Balakrishnan, Akbar Kakattil, and Chief Secretary Sajan Peter (Member Secretary).

Born-27 October 1930 

Attoor, Thrissur, Kerala

Nationality-Indian

Genres-Poetry, Translation studies

The Kendra Sahitya Academy award was won by Attoor Ravi Varma, one of the pioneers of modern poetry in Malayalam, for his contributions to the worlds of literature. It comes from a small village called Attoor, in the district of Thrissur, Kerala.
The recipients of the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram include Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1993); Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai in 1994, Balamani Amma in1995, K. M. George (1996); Ponkunnam Varkey (1997); M.P. Appan (1998), K. P. Narayana Pisharody (1999); Pala Narayanan Nair (2000); O.V. Vijayan (2001); Kamala Suraiya (2002); T. Padmanabhan (2003); Sukumar Azhikode (2004), S. Guptan Nair (2005); Kovilan (2006); O.N.V. Kurup (2007); Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri (2008); Sugatha Kumari (2009), M. Leelavathy (2010) and M.T. Vasudevan Nair, 2011.

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