Topic summary
Malayatoor Ramakrishnan
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Malayattoor Ramakrishnan.
Awards and honours
Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected Verukal for their annual award for novels in 1967. He received the Vayalar Award in 1979 for the novel, Yanthram. Malayatoor Ramakrishnan Charitable Trust, an eponymous charitable organization, have instituted two awards, the Malayattoor Painting and Sculpture Award for recognising excellence in fine arts and the Malayattoor Award for honouring literary excellence in Malayalam language. M. V. Devan, the noted painter and sculptor, was one among the many recipients of the Malayattoor Painting and Sculpture Award while Prabha Varma, T. D. Ramakrishnan and Perumbadavam Sreedharan feature among the literary award winners.