The Ezhuthachan Puraskaram is the highest literary honour given by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Government of Kerala. The award is named after Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan, the father of the Malayalam language and consists of a cash prize of 5,00,000 and a citation. The prize money was enhanced by 50,000 in 2011. The award was instituted in 1993 and Sooranad Kunjan Pillai was its first recipient.
List of winners The following are the winners of the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram. Year Awardee Image 1993 Sooranad Kunjan Pillai 1994 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 1995 Balamaniamma 1996 K. M. George 1997 Ponkunnam Varkey 1998 M. P. Appan 1999 K. P. Narayana Pisharody 2000 Pala Narayanan Nair 2001 O. V. Vijayan 2002 Kamala Surayya 2003 T. Padmanabhan 2004 Sukumar Azhikkode 2005 S. Guptan Nair 2006 V. V. Ayyappan (Kovilan) 2007 O. N. V. Kurup 2008 Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri 2009 Sugathakumari 2010 M. Leelavathi 2011 M. T. Vasudevan Nair 2012 Attoor Ravi Varma 2013 M. K. Sanu 2014 Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri 2015 Puthussery Ramachandran 2016 C. Radhakrishnan 2017 K. Satchidanandan 2018 M. Mukundan 2019 Anand 2020 Zacharia 2021P. Valsala2022Sethu2023S. K. Vasanthan2024N. S. Madhavan2025K. G. Sankara Pillai
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