T.K Damodaran (born 1946), popularly known as T.K.D. Muzhappilangad, is an Indian author,

screenplay writer A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

, critic and orator.

Life

He was born in

Muzhappilangad Muzhappilangad (മുഴപ്പിലങ്ങാട്) is a coastal census town near Thalassery in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. History The Kolathunadu emerged into independent 10 principalities i.e., Kadathanadu (Vada ...

, a coastal village in

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

. Besides children's literature he wrote four novels, sixteen essays on various subjects, five biographies and five plays. He is a children's story writer in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

, who has won several awards including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. His book ''Unnikkuttanum kadhakaliyum'' received the

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature (also known as Sree Padmanabhaswamy Award for Children’s Literature) is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to Malayalam writers for writin ...

in 1983.

References

1946 births Living people Indian male novelists Indian male screenwriters Malayalam-language writers Indian children's writers Novelists from Kerala 20th-century Indian novelists People from Kannur district 20th-century Indian essayists 20th-century Indian biographers Screenwriters from Kerala 20th-century Indian male writers Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award Male biographers {{India-writer-stub