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Awards & Honours27 Jun 2025

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Announces 2024 Literary Awards at Thrissur

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The Kerala Sahitya Akademi announced its 2024 literary awards on 26 June 2025 at Thrissur.
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G R Indugopan won the Best Novel award for 'Aano' and Anitha Thampi won the poetry award.
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K V Ramakrishnan was awarded the Akademi Fellowship, the body's highest honour.
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Ezhacheri Ramachandran was among those recognised for Lifetime Contribution, alongside six other authors.
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Awards spanned genres including drama, literary criticism, scientific literature, biography, travel writing and translation.

●Announced: 26 June 2025 at Thrissur, Kerala.
●Awarding body: Kerala Sahitya Akademi, the state's premier literary institution.
●Best Novel: G R Indugopan for 'Aano'.
●Poetry: Anitha Thampi for 'Muringa Vazha Kariveppu'.
●Short Story: V Shinilal.
●Fellowship: K V Ramakrishnan.

Best Novel

G R Indugopan — 'Aano'

Poetry

Anitha Thampi — 'Muringa Vazha Kariveppu'

Short Story

V Shinilal — 'Garisappa Aruvi Athava Oru Jalayathra'

Essay (Sibi Kumar Endowment)

M Swaraj — 'Pookkalude Pusthakam'

Drama

Sashidharan Naduvil

Literary Criticism

G Dileep

Biography / Autobiography

Dr K Rajashekharan Nair

Translation

Chinthu Prakash

Fellowship

K V Ramakrishnan

Lifetime Contribution

Ezhacheri Ramachandran and six other authors

Kerala Sahitya Akademi

State body promoting Malayalam literature and conferring literary awards

Head: President, Kerala Sahitya AkademiHQ: Thrissur, Kerala

Sahitya Akademi (National)

India's national academy of letters, distinct from the state akademi

Head: President, Sahitya AkademiHQ: New Delhi

●Kerala Sahitya Akademi is headquartered at Thrissur
●Best Novel 2024: G R Indugopan for 'Aano'
●Fellowship is the Akademi's highest honour
●Malayalam was declared a Classical Language of India in 2013
●G Sankara Kurup was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award, in 1965

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★SSC may ask: 'The Kerala Sahitya Akademi is headquartered in which city?'
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Akademi Fellowship

The highest honour conferred by a Sahitya Akademi, recognising lifetime distinction in letters.

Classical Language status

A designation by the Government of India recognising a language's antiquity and independent literary tradition; Malayalam received it in 2013.

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•Kerala Sahitya Akademi HQ: Thrissur
•2024 Best Novel: G R Indugopan for 'Aano'
•Malayalam gained Classical Language status in 2013

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•Do not confuse the state Kerala Sahitya Akademi at Thrissur with the national Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi. Exams exploit that overlap.

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