C. N. Sreekantan Nair

C. N. Sreekantan Nair
Born	1928 Kollam, Kerala, India
Died	17 December 1976
Occupation	Writer, playwright
Awards	Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award M. P. Paul Prize

C. N. Sreekantan Nair (1928–1976) was a Malayalam writer and playwright.

He is probably best known for his Ramayana trilogy – Kanchana Sita, Saketham and Lankalakshmi – based on the epic Ramayana. Poet and scholar Ayyappa Panicker had observed that Lankalakshmi brought out the playwright in Sreekantan Nair, while Saketham and Kanchana Sita highlighted the poet and the philosopher in the playwright. He received the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award in 1962 for Kanchana Sita. It was later adapted into a film with same name by G. Aravindan. His another major work was Nashtakkachavadam which won the M. P. Paul prize.

Sreekantan Nair experimented successfully with stage direction and concepts of theatre. He has also written some short stories.

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