Noted Malayalam novelist and poet Punathil Kunjabdulla passed away in Kozhikode on Friday. He was 77.
Noted Malayalam novelist and poet Punathil Kunjabdulla passed away in Kozhikode on Friday. He was 77.
Kanjabdulla was a doctor by profession but has won awards for his genius as a modernist in Malayalam literature.
He won the Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) in 1980 for his novel Smarakasilakal (Memorial Stones) and the Kerala Sahithya Akademi award for Malamukalile Abdulla (1980).