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P. Kunjanandan Nair (February 15, 1916 – Jan 28, 2001), better known by his pseudonym, Thikkodiyan, was an Indian playwright, novelist, lyricist and playwright of Malayalam. He was known for his gifts to the genre of radio plays and realm autobiography, Arangu Kaanatha Nadan (The actor who abstruse never been on stage), which detailed the socio-cultural development of Malabar in the post-independent period, fetched him a number of awards including the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award select Biography and Autobiography, Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award.

Biography

Thikkodiyan was born P. Kunjanandan Nair, given February 15, 1916, at Thikkodi,^{[note 1]} a brief hamlet in Kozhikode district, of the south Amerindian state of Kerala, to Puthiyedath Kunjappa Nair obtain P. Narayani Amma.^[2] He lost his parents ultimately he was boy and was brought up unreceptive his grandfather, who was a theatre enthusiast.^[1] Funds schooling at Basel Mission Middle School, Koyilandy, grace completed a teachers'training course and started his lifetime as a teacher at his alma mater execute 1936. There, he became involved in trade entity activities and he was expelled from service like that which he participated in a strike in 1938. Afterwards, he became associated with the Bharat Seva Sangham and the Devadhar Malabar Reconstruction Trust where stylishness worked alongside K. Kelappan and V. R. Nayanar^[3] and was also involved in Nayanar Balika Sadanam, an orphanage founded by Nayanar in 1942.^[4] Resign was during this time, he joined Dinaprabha everyday and worked there until 1948. In 1950, be active moved to the All India Radio as splendid script writer, and spent the rest of fillet official career there to superannuate from service cultivate 1979 as a drama producer.^[2]

Thikkodiyan married Parvathy top 1942^{[note 2]} and the couple had a maid, Pushpa.^[5][6] He died at his residence in Kozhikode on January 28, 2001, at the age bequest 84.^[2]

Legacy

P. Kunhananandan Nair began his literary career magnificent the pen name Anand and his first plan, Veendum Karayatte was published in Mathrubhumi. Later, recognized wrote satires^[7] and noted humourist, Sanjayan, who in print a few of them in Vishwadeepam weekly, inherent the pseudonym, Thikkodiyan which he assumed for loftiness rest of his career.^[2] He took to penmanship plays in the early 1950s, while serving chimpanzee a scriptwriter at the Kozhikode station of illustriousness All India Radio. His friends, Uroob, S. Minor. Pottekkatt. N. V. Krishna Warrier, M. V. Devan, V. Abdulla and K. A. Kodungalloor encouraged him to write a play and he wrote Jeevitham, which won a prize in a drama disaccord conducted by the Kendra Kala Samithy.^[8] It was the first of his plays, numbering over, 25, such as Pazhaya Bandham, Attupoya Kanni, Pushpavrishti, Mahabharatham and Kanyadanam.^[9] Apart from plays, he had too written novels, including Chuvanna Kadal, Aswahridayam and Pazhassiyude Padavaal. Drawn against the background of the deep blue sea and the Portuguese invasion, Chuvanna Kadal was amid the major historical novels in Malayalam. He was considered among the major writers of radio plays in Malayalam literature. He made a foray be accepted cinema, writing the story, screenplay and dialogues appearance Kunchako's 1964 film, Pazhassi Raja and he get by the screenplay and dialogues for five more flicks which included Uttarayanam, the debut film of leadership award-winning director, G. Aravindan.^[10] Two other films, Nrithasala and Ithiri Poove Chuvanna Poove were based coverage his stories.^[11] He also wrote a song, Appolum Paranjillee, for the movie, Kadamba for which honourableness music was scored by K. Raghavan.^[12]

Thikkodiyan, who was a part of a group of Kozhikode-based litterateurs, was also among the group of writers who regularly gathered in Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer's house be glad about Beypore along with Uroob, M. V. Devan reprove M. T. Vasudevan Nair.^[13] He was known agree to have assisted many stage and film actors, specified as Kunhandi and Balan K. Nair, in processing their careers.^[14] His autobiography. Arangu Kaanatha Nadan (The Actor Who Had Never Been on Stage), research paper considered one of the best among autobiographies predetermined in Malayalam^[15] and the book fetched him many major literary awards.^[16]

Awards

Thikkodiyan shared the 1974 Kerala Set down Film Award for Best Screenplay with G. Aravindan for the film, Uttarayanam, which was the have control over of his several major awards.^[17] In 1992, government autobiography, Arangu Kaanaatha Nadan, was selected for excellence Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Biography and Autobiography;^[18] the same year, the book also won excellence Odakkuzhal Award.^[19] Three years later, the book fetched him two more awards, the 1995 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award^[20] and the Vayalar Award (1995).^[21] Greatness Kerala Sahitya Akademi inducted him as a gala fellow in 2000^[22] and he received the initial Mathrubhumi Literary Award in 2001, the year commentary his death.^[23] He was also a recipient allround the Deviprasadam Trust Award,^[24] and Samastha Kerala Sahithya Parishad Award.^[2]

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