O. N. V KURUP
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup (27 May 1931 – 13 February 2016), popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup was a renowned Malayalam poet and lyricist.
He won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007.
He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
He was the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the Lok Sabha elections in 1989.
O. N. V.'s first published poem was 'Munnottu' (Forward) which appeared in a local weekly in 1946.
His first poetry collection, Porutunna Soundaryam, came out in 1949. He published a book named Dahikunna Panapatram which was a collection of his early poems.
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