KERALA
ONV Award for Tamil poet Vairamuthu’
Tamil poet and lyricist Vairamuthu has been selected for this year’s ONV Award instituted by the ONV Cultural Academy in honour of late poet ONV Kurup.
This is the first time that the award, being given to litterateurs from Malayalam and other Indian languages, is going to a non-Keralite writer.
Malayalam University vice-chancellor Anil Vallathol, writer Alamcode Leelakrishnan and poet Prabha Varma were members of the award jury. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs 3 lakh, citation and plaque.