# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/unnikrishnan-puthoor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:20.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/unnikrishnan-puthoor"
name: "Unnikrishnan Puthoor"
slug: "unnikrishnan-puthoor"
description: "Unnikrishnan Puthur was a Malayalam–language novelist and short story writer. Puthur wrote about 700 short stories and published 29 collections of short stories, 15 novels, a collection of poems and autobiographical writings, among others. He was awarded Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Balikkallu in 1968. He received the Odakkuzhal Award in the year 2010 for the book Anubhavangalude Ner Rekhakal."
tagline: "Indian writer (1933-2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Unnikrishnan_Puthur.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-07-15"
deathDate: "2014-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             19.78632478632479
  historical:           6.139561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "أونيكريشنان بوثر"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump