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writer and film director (1939-)

C. Radhakrishnan

b. 1939, born Chamravattam, writes in Malayalam, writer

C. Radhakrishnan is an Indian novelist, short story writer, film director and physicist who writes in Malayalam. He is one of the most widely read Malayalam writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has received nearly every major literary recognition in Kerala, including the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the Moortidevi Award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He was conferred the status of Eminent Member by the Sahitya Akademi in 2022, becoming only the second Malayalam writer after M. T. Vasudevan Nair to receive that distinction.

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Books on record

On Open Library

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Awards

1988Sahitya Akademi Award for Spandamapinikale Nandi

Elsewhere

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Also writing in Malayalam