E. Harikumar
Edasseri Harikumar was an Indian Malayalam novelist and short story writer and novelist in Malayalam, the language of Kerala in South West India. Born on 13 July 1943 in Ponani a coastal town between Calicut and Kochi. Harikumar's parents were Edasseri Govindan Nair, a well-known poet and playwright, and E. Janaki Amma, who in her early years had written poems and stories and translated Tagore's Fruit Gathering into Malayalam. Married Lalitha. Son Ajay, married. Wife: Subha.
Harikumar was a member of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, the foremost literary institution under the Cultural Department of Government of Kerala, for two terms from 1998 till 2006. He died on 24 March 2020, due to COVID-19 at the age of 76.
Awards
- Kerala [Sahitya Akademi Award for Story|Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award] for the year 1988 for anthology of short stories titled Dinosarinte Kutty,
- Padmarajan Award in 1997 for the best story of the year ‘Pachhapayyine Pidikkan’
- Nalappadan Award for the book ‘Sookshichu Vacha Mayilpeeli’ in 1998
- Kathapeedam Award for the book ‘Anithayude Veedu’ in 2006
- Kerala State Chalachithra Academy Award for best story for the TV film ‘Sreeparvathiyude Paadam’ in 2012
List of works
Novels
- Urangunna Sarpangal
- Asaktiyude Agninalangal
- Oru Kudumbapuranam
- Engine Drivere Snehicha Penkutti
- Ayanangal
- Thadakatheerathu
- Pranayathinnoru Software
- Kochambratti
- Ariyathalangalilekku
Memoir
- Nee Evideyanenkilum
- Ee Oramakal Marikkathirikkatte
Stories
- Koorakal
- Vrishabhathinte Kannu
- Kumkumam Vithariya Vazhikal
- Dinosarinte Kutti
- Canadayilninnoru Rajakumari
- Sreeparvathiyude Paadam
- Sookshichu Vacha Mayilpeeli
- Pachappayine Pidikkan
- Doore Oru Nagarathil
- Karutha Thambratti
- Anithayude Veedu
- Nagaravasiyaya Oru Kutti
- Ilaveyilinte Santhwanam
- Vellithirayilennapole
- Ente Sthreekal
- Ummukkulsoonte Veedu