Who sang ‘being a human being was much greater than being anything else even a poet'
Malayalam litterateur and poet ONV Kurup has been chosen for the 2007 Jnanapith award, the country's highest literary honour for his contribution to literature.
The award is announced in Delhi on Friday (24-Sep-2010) after a meeting of the Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by Oriya writer and Jnanpith award winner Sri. Sitakant Mahapatra.
ONV Kurup began his career as a progressive writer and matured into a humanist though he never gave up his commitment to socialist ideology. ONV is the second poet to bag the coveted award from Kerala. In 1995 G Sankara Kurup was honoured with Jnanpith. Though SK Pottekkad, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai and MT Vasudevan Nair had been honoured with the award, they were all writers of prose.
INCAS Kannur Dist Chapter, take pleasure to congratulate our beloved ONV of Malayalam on this achievement.
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