Onv kurup biography list

Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup known as O. Kurup ; 27 May — 13 February was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala , India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year He received the awards Padma Shri in and Padma Vibhushan in , the fourth and second highest civilian honours from the Government of India.

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V Kurup was born to O. Krishna Kurup and K. He lost his father when he was eight. His childhood days were spent in Chavara, where he attended the government school. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics from SN College, Kollam , he moved to Thiruvananthapuram city Trivandrum where he joined Travancore University now Kerala University and pursued Master of Arts in Malayalam literature.

He was also a visiting professor at Calicut University. He retired from service in He received the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, for the year