Kerala PSC | List of ONV Kurup Literary Award Winners

Since 2017, the O. N. V. Literary Prize has been given out yearly by the O. N. V. Cultural Academy in honour of the poet O. N. V. Kurup (1931–2016). It is a national prize for which authors from all over India are taken into consideration for their overall literary accomplishments. But only writers who write in Malayalam have won the prize thus far. The prize includes a statue, a citation, and $30,000 in cash.

List of ONV Kurup Literary Award Winners

Year	Recipient	Jury
2017	Sugathakumari	M. Leelavathy C. Radhakrishnan Prabha Varma
2018	M.T.Vasudevan Nair	M. M. Basheer K. Jayakumar Prabha Varma
2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	C. Radhakrishnan S. V. Venugopan Nair Prabha Varma
2020	M. Leelavathy	C. Radhakrishnan Prabha Varma Anil Vallathol
2021	Vairamuthu	Anil Vallathol Alankode Leelakrishnan Prabha Varma
2022	T. Padmanabhan	M. M. Basheer George Onakkoor Prabha Varma

Points to Remembes about ONV Kurup Literary Award

ONV Kurup Literary Award
Awarded for	Overall contributions to literature
Sponsored by	O. N. V. Cultural Academy
Reward(s)	a statue, a citation, and a purse of ₹ 300,000.
First awarded	2017
Last awarded	2022
Total awarded	6
First winner	Sugathakumari
Last winner	T. Padmanabhan

ONV Kurup Literary Award Question Answers

Who received the first ONV Kurup Literary Award?

Sugathakumari

In which year ONV Kurup Literary Award Started?

2017

Who was the First woman to receive ONV Kurup Literary Award?

Sugathakumari

What is the prize of ONV Kurup Literary Award?

A statue, a citation, and a purse of ₹ 300,000.

Who is the sponser of ONV Kurup Literary Award?

O. N. V. Cultural Academy