Background
Cherukad was born in Chemmalasseri in Perinthalmanna taluk to Kizheettil Pisharath Karunakara Pisharody and Cherukad Pisharath Narayani Pisharasiar.
Cherukad was born in Chemmalasseri in Perinthalmanna taluk to Kizheettil Pisharath Karunakara Pisharody and Cherukad Pisharath Narayani Pisharasiar.
He got elementary training in Sanskrit from Guru Gopalanezhuthssan. After completing high school education, he joined as a teacher in Chemmala Aided Mappila School. Cherukad"s politically charged writing was influential in defining the Malayalam literature of the fifties and sixties.
His political life was connected with the lives of the leading politicians and patriots of Kerala.
Some of his important works are,, Manushyabandhangal, Namal Onnu, Manushya Hridayangal,,, Manninte Maril (On the Bosom of the Soil), and In 1936 Cherukad married Kizheettil Pisharath Lakshmi Pisharasiar.
Their son K. P. Mohanan is a noted writer Cherukad died on 28 October 1976.
The Cherukad Award is an annually given literary award instituted in his memory.
Cherukad was one of the founder members of the Deshabhimani Study Circle, a progressive literary movement in Kerala and the predecessor of the Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham. His autobiography Jeevithappatha (1974) received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977.
