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Malayalam author Punathil Kunjabdulla dead

| @indiablooms | Oct 27, 2017, at 06:06 pm
Kozhikode, Oct 27 (IBNS) : Celebrated Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla died in Kozhikode on Friday. He was 77, The Hindu reported.

Kunjabdulla, who was a  doctor by profession, had  won the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Smarakasilakal (1980) and the Kerala Sahithya Akademi award twice for the same novel (1978) and Malamukalile Abdulla (1980).

He is regarded as one of the front ranking figures of modernism in Malayalam literature.

His other major works include Marunnu, Kanyavanangal, Kathi and Aligarh Kathakal.

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