Sankaran Kutty Pottekkatt, popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala state, South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels, twenty-four collections of short stories, three anthologies of poems, eighteen travelogues, four plays, a collection of essays and a couple of books based on personal reminiscences. Pottekkatt won the Kerala Sahitya Academy award of 1961 for the novel Oru Theruvinte Katha and the Jnanpith Award in 1980 for the novel Oru Desathinte Katha, which was made into an award winning film. His works have been translated into English, Italian, Russian, German and Czech, besides all major Indian languages.
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