V. R. Sudheesh
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| Alma mater | Farook College |
| Occupations | Writer, screenwriter, translator, academic |
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V. R. Sudheesh is an Indian writer, screenwriter, translator and academic, who writes in Malayalam. He is a two-time recipient of the Kerala Sahithya Akademi Award.
Sudheesh was born in Vadakara near Kozhikode in the south Indian state of Kerala.[1] He did his pre degree from farook college and graduated in history from Madappally Government College and earned an MA in Malayalam literature from Government Brennen College, Tellicherry.[2] He has completed M.Phil. from Madras University. Subsequently, He became a teacher in colleges under SN Trust.[1] and retired from service as the principal of Sree Narayana Guru College, Chelannoor in 2018.[3] The writer was booked for insulting and threatening a Kozhikode-based woman publisher in June 2022.
Literary career
Sudheesh started writing at a very young age and his early works were published in the children's column of Mathrubhumi Weekly and later in Chandrika Weekly and Deshabhimani Weekly.[4]
Awards
Sudheesh received the Kerala State Television Award for screenplay in 2005.[3] His short story anthology, Bhavana Bhedanam fetched him the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story in 2014.[5] Three years later, he received the 2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature for his work, Kurukkan Mashinte School[6] and in 2020, he was awarded the Thoppil Ravi Award for the work, Kadukkachi Manga.[7] He is also a recipient of C. V. Sreeraman Award, T. V. Kochubawa Award and Bheema Bala Sahitya Award.[3] In 2020, he received the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award in story category for his work Kadukkachi Manga.[8]