C. Radhakrishnan
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| Born | Chakkupurayil Radhakrishnan 15 February 1939 Chamravattam, Tirur, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (present day Malappuram, Kerala, India) |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Zamorin's College, Calicut Government Victoria College, Palakkad |
| Notable works | Nizhalppadukal (1962) Spandamapinikale Nandi (1986) Theekkadal Kadanhu Thirumadhuram (2005) |
| Notable awards | Ezhuthachan Puraskaram (2016) Moortidevi Award (2013) Sahitya Akademi Award (1988) Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (1962) |
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C. Radhakrishnan (born 15 February 1939) is an Indian novelist, short story writer, film director and physicist who writes in Malayalam. He is one of the most widely read Malayalam writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and has received nearly every major literary recognition in Kerala, including the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the Moortidevi Award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He was conferred the status of Eminent Member by the Sahitya Akademi in 2022, becoming only the second Malayalam writer after M. T. Vasudevan Nair to receive that distinction.