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C. Radhakrishnan

Indian writer and film director (1939-) · India · On the map · Directors

C. Radhakrishnan is an Indian novelist, short story writer, film director and physicist who writes in Malayalam.

C. Radhakrishnan is read about 17 times a day, in 8 languages.

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A life in dates

1994BhaagyavaanFilm, Writer1988Sahitya Akademi AwardAward1976PaalkkadalFilm, WriterThulaavarshamFilm, 1976Writer1970PriyaFilm, Writer1939Born15 February 1939

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Awards

Sahitya Akademi Award1988
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award

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He is one of the most widely read Malayalam writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has received nearly every major literary recognition in Kerala, including the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the Moortidevi Award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He was conferred the status of Eminent Member by the Sahitya Akademi in 2022, becoming only the second Malayalam writer after M. T. Vasudevan Nair to receive that distinction.

Country
India
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1939 · age 87

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