Veloor Krishnankutty

Veloor Krishnankutty
Born	(1927-09-19)September 19, 1927 Veloor, Kottayam, Travancore
Died	August 22, 2003(2003-08-22) (aged 75) Kottayam, Kerala, India
Occupation(s)	Writer, screenwriter
Children	Two daughters and a son
Parents	N. N. Kunjunni Parvathi Amma
Awards	1974 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Miscellaneous Works

N. K. Krishnankutty, popularly known as Veloor Krishnankutty (Malayalam: വേളൂർ കൃഷ്ണൻകുട്ടി, 19 September 1927 – 22 August 2003), was an Indian satirist of Malayalam literature. Kerala Sahitya Akademy awarded him their annual award for miscellaneous works in 1974.

Veloor Krishnankutty was born on September 19, 1927^[1] in Velur in the present day Kottayam district, then in Travancore to N. N. Kunjunni and Parvathi Amma.^{[citation needed]}

His education was at M. D. Seminary, Kottayam and CMS College Kottayam.^{[citation needed]} His career started as a journalist in Deepika where he used to write a column under the pen name Pathraparayanan, and became the editor of the Deepika weekly.^[2] Later, he sat in the editorial board of Keraladhwani for eight years.^[3] He was also a member of the senate of the University of Cochin and the advisory boards of the All India Radio and the Institute of Children's Literature.^[1]

In 1973, one of his books, Masappady Mathupillai was adapted into a film under the same name and he wrote the dialogues.^[4] Noted filmmaker, K. G. George based his 1984 satire Panchavadi Palam on a book of Krishnankutty of the same name^[5] and two years later, he wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues for Ambili Ammavan.^[6] His book, Vela Manasilirikkatte, fetched Krishnankutty the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Miscellaneous Works in 1974.^[7] He was also a recipient of other honours including E. V. Krishna Pillai Memorial Janma Satabdi Award and K. Karunakaran Memorial Seva Sangham Award.^[2]

He died on August 22, 2003, at a private hospital in Kottayam where he had been admitted following renal complaints, survived his wife, two daughters and a son.^[2]

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• List of Malayalam-language authors

• Sariga CD World (11 October 2018). "Hasyaprabhashanam By Veloor Krishnankutty". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
• keralascope (27 September 2013). "Veloor Krishnankutty - Reminiscences". YouTube. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
• "Profile of Malayalam Dialog Writer Veloor Krishnankutty". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 3 April 2019.