(1906-12-23)23 December 1906 Kuttipuram, Malabar district, Madras Presidency, British India
Died
16 October 1974(1974-10-16) (aged 67) Cochin, Kerala, India
Pen name
Edasseri
Nickname
"Shakthiyude Kavi"[1]
Occupation
Poet, playwright
Nationality
Indian
Genre
Poetry, plays
Notable awards
Sahitya Akademi Award
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry
Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram
Spouse
Janaki Amma
Children
E. Harikumar
Relatives
P. Krishna Kurup (father) Kunjukutti Amma (mother)
Website
website
Edasseri Govindan Nair (Malayalam: ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 23 December 1906 – 16 October 1974) was an Indian poet and playwright of Malayalam literature. Known as one of the major poets of Malayalam, Edasseri was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. He was also a recipient of Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram, which was awarded posthumously.
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Kurup, S. K. Pottekkatt, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, EdasseriGovindanNair, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, O. N. V. Kurup, and Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, had...
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from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2023. "S. Guptan Nair selected for prestigious 'Vallathol Samman' for 1999". India Today. 20 September...
(2002). Suryathejas — Studies on Asan Poetry. Asan Memorial Association. M. Govindan, ed. (1974). Poetry and Renaissance: Kumaran Asan birth centenary volume...
Akademi. Kuttikrishnan married Devaki Amma, the sister-in-law of EdasseriGovindanNair, in 1948. He died on July 10, 1979, at the age of 64, while he was...
India (present-day Thrissur district, Kerala) on 31 March 1934, to V. M. Nair, a managing editor of the widely circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi,...
international recognition. Poets like Changampuzha, Uroob, EdasseriGovindanNair, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Kamala Surayya, Pallathu Raman, and Edappally Raghavan...
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