# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-n-ezhuthachan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:00:40.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-n-ezhuthachan"
name: "K. N. Ezhuthachan"
slug: "k-n-ezhuthachan"
description: "Kudiyirikkal Narayanan Ezhuthachan was an Indian writer and scholar of Malayalam literature. He was one among the principal followers of the idea of social impact on literature. Ezhuthachan supported Marxist literary criticism and interpreted Indian literary works based on Marxist aesthetics. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Keralodayam, a long narrative poem written in Sanskrit. He is the first Malayali to win Sahitya Akademi Award in Sanskrit. He died on 28 October 1981 while delivering a lecture at Calicut University."
tagline: "Indian academic"
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country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1911-05-21"
deathDate: "1981-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump