C. L. Jose

C. L. Jose was born in the Chakkalakal house at Puthukad, Thrissur district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Lonappan and Manjali Mariakutty as the eldest of their nine children.

He started his literary career as a playwright with Manam Thelinju, which he wrote for a local club in the town when he was 24.

[7] Jose has served as a faculty of fine arts at the University of Calicut, has been a member of the Kerala Sahithya Akademi and the Samastha Kerala Sahithya Parishad, has sat in the advisory board of the All India Radio and has presided over the Fine Arts Society of Thrissur.

He also chaired the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi for a brief period in the 1990s[2] and serves as a member of the Pastoral council of the Archdiocese of Thrissur.

the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award[11] and the Chevalier title of the Holy See.