K. P. Ramanunni

K.P. Ramanunni is an Indian short story writer and a novelist. Ramanunni has won some awards. He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Sufi Paranja Katha in 1995. For his novel Daivathinte Pusthakam, he won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017.

Ramanunni won the Vayalar Award in 2011 for his novel Jeevithathinte Pusthakam. Ramanunni took birth in 1955. His parents are Janaki Amma and Damodharan Nair. He did his schooling from AV High School in Ponnani.

He graduated in English Literature from Malabar Christian College in Calicut. After this, Ramanunni worked in State Bank of India as an assistant manager but later immersed himself in writing. Ramanunni”s first entrée novel Sufi Prajna Katha received a first grade in a Malayali weekly news magazine Kalakaumudi with the adjunct of elucidation by the renowned artist K.M. Vasudevan Namboothiri, better known as ‘Artist Namboodiri.’

The story in Sufi Prajna Katha is a love story between Mammootty, a Muslim and Kathy, a Hindu. The novel talks about the spiritual perception and a hush-hush extent to these circumstances. Including English and French, this novel is translated into eight languages.

Priyanandan, a film and drama director from Kerala released a movie by the same name in 2010 for which Ramanunni wrote the dialogues. For his next novel to come, it took him almost four years. The name of the book was Charama Varshikam.

And after that five more years for his most recent novel Daivathinte Pusthakam. The story of this novel revolves around a man with Amnesia who is a bank officer. It was civic sanctimony and bucolic altruism that he attempted to represent in his novel. Ramanunni has had a fair share of controversies.

On February 2017, Ramanunni gave a part of his prize money to Junaid’s family, the boy who was executed by Hindu fanatics, which made Ramanunni receive death threats commanding him to convert to Islam. In June 2018, Ramanunni performed a ritual, ‘Shayana Pradakshinam’ at the Kadalayi Sree Krishna Temple in Chirakkal as a spectacle for the brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl at Kathua, Jammu.

This ritual invited protests from different political parties and Sangh Parivar activists. Ramanunni currently resides in Poovattuparmbu, Calicut. He is the administrator of Thunjan Memorial Trust.