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Something wrong?Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011, the fourth and second highest civilian honours from the Government of India.
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P. BalachandranBoth received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
Giani Gurmukh Singh MusafirBoth received Padma Vibhushan in literature & education
Chandrashekhara KambaraBoth received Jnanpith Award
Vladimir FedoseyevBoth received Pushkin Medal
P. PadmarajanBoth received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
Sacha Hamilton, Duchess of AbercornBoth received Pushkin MedalAbout this person
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011, the fourth and second highest civilian honours from the Government of India. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by University of Kerala, Trivandrum. O. N. V. was known for his leftist leaning. He was a leader of All India Students Federation (AISF). He died on 13 February 2016 at KIMS hospital in Thiruvananthapuram due to age-related illnesses, aged 84.
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