Kozhikodan
Kozhikodan | |
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| Born | K. Appukuttan Nair 1925 Chembra, Palghat, Kerala, India |
| Died | 2007 Kozhikode, Kerala, India |
| Occupation | Film critic |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Nationality | Indian |
K. Appukuttan Nair (1925–2007), better known as Kozhikodan, was a film critic and writer from Kerala, India. He began writing on films from the early 1950s. He started writing in Mathrubhumi and Chandrika, and later became a regular columnist of Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly along with Cynic and Nadirsha (T. M. P. Nedungadi). TKozhikodan received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 1988 for Chalathitraswadanam Engane? and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Humour) in 2010 for the poetry collection Padachonikku Salam. He died on 20 January 2007.[1]
'Kozhikodan Smaraka Samiti' has instituted Kozhikodan Puraskaram, an award given annually to the best book on cinema in Malayalam.[2]
Works
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Cinema
- Chalachitra Sallapam (DC Books, 1982)
- Chalachitra Niroopanam (NBS, 1984)
- Chalachitra Jalakom (Mathrubhumi,1985)
- Chalachitraswadanam Engane (PK Brothers, 1988)
- Sathyan Enna Natan (NBS, 1992)
- Malayala Cinema: Ente Premabhajanam (Poorna, 1999)
- Malayala Cinemayile Ekkalatheyum Ettavum Mikacha Pathu Chithrangal (Poorna, 2001)
Essays
- Navollekham (1966)
- Mahanaya Shikari (1973)
- Eshani Puranam (1988)
Humour
- Padachonikk Salaam (1998)
Children's literature
- Vado Njanum Koode Varaam (1986)
- Vadamalliyum Panineer Poovum (1992)
- Mahacharithamala – Two volumes (1983)
- Kuttikalkkoru Sammanam (2000)
References
- ^ "Film critic Kozhikodan passes away - KERALA". The Hindu. 21 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Kozhikkodan award to bhagyalakshmi | "ഭാഗ്യലക്ഷ്മിയ്ക്ക് കോഴിക്കോടന് പുരസ്കാരം"". dcbooks.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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Categories:
- 1925 births
- 2007 deaths
- Indian film critics
- Malayali people
- People from Palakkad district
- Novelists from Kerala
- Malayalam-language writers
- Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
- Kerala State Film Award winners
- 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Indian essayists
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- Indian children's writers
- Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala
- 20th-century Indian male writers