Background
Born in the village of Engandiyur, in Thrissur district of Kerala, as the son of Chulliparambil Sankunni Nair and Puthur Janaki Amma, Unnikrishnan Puthur studied at the Chavakkad Board School and Government Victoria College, Palakkad.
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Government Victoria College.
Career
Puthur has written about 700 short stories. He has published 29 collections of short stories, 15 novels, a collection of poems and autobiographical writings, among others He started his career in college and parallelly worked as a newspaper correspondent for two years.
Then he joined to Guruvayur Sreekrishna temple Devaswom office as a clerk and retired as head of the establishment wing of the Guruvayur Devaswom Library in the year 1987.
He was nominated to the Temple Managing Committee as the representative of the temple employees. He died on 2 April 2014 at a private hospital in Chavakkad.
He had been undergoing treatment for age related ailments for quite some time. Balikkallu Jalasamadhi Dharmachakram Gajarajan Guruvayoor Kesavan Puthurinte Kathakal Nazhikamani Thallaviral Akashvani Kuttasammatam (The Confession) Athmaviboothi Aanappaka Aattukattil Amruthamadhanam Marakkanum Porukkanum.
Achievements
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He was awarded Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Balikkallu in 1968. He received the Odakkuzhal Award in the year 2010 for the novel Anubhavangal Ner Reghakal. He also served as the president of the Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society, member of the executive committee of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and the general council of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi, and founder-member of the editorial committee of Bhakthapriya magazine.
Politics
He was a trade union leader and a socialist.
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April 2, 2014 (aged 80)
Education
Awards
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award Sahitya Akademi Award; Odakkuzhal Award
Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.; Odakkuzhal Award is an Indian literary award given by the Guruvayoorappan Trust every year to writers for a particular outstanding work of him/her in Malayalam–language.Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.; Odakkuzhal Award is an Indian literary award given by the Guruvayoorappan Trust every year to writers for a particular outstanding work of him/her in Malayalam–language.