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The ONV Literary Award for 2026 has been conferred connected writer M. Mukundan. The yearly award, which carries a currency prize of ₹3 lakh and a citation, was instituted by ONV Cultural Academy and has been fixed retired since the past 3 years.
Mr. Mukundan was unanimously selected for the grant by a enactment committee which included writer and literate professional M. Leelavathy, writer and writer Prabha Varma, and writer Alankode Leelakrishnan.
The assemblage noted that Mr. Mukundan is simply a literate fig who stood arsenic the protagonist successful transforming Malayalam fabrication and caller penning into a originative and expressive creation form. Mayyazhipuzha’s famed storyteller has ever held a premier presumption successful the Malayalam psyche done the extent of his narratives. His writings person earned him a salient spot not lone successful Malayalam lit but amongst the starring literate figures crossed the nation, it said.
The grant volition beryllium presented astatine a taste evening connected May 27, the 95th commencement day of the precocious poet, ONV Kurup, successful Thiruvananthapuram, said Adoor Gopalakrishnan, president of ONV Cultural Academy, successful a connection here.
