K. Surendran

K. Surendran (22 February 1921 – 9 August 1997) was an Indian novelist who wrote in Malayalam.

He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963 for the novel Maya and the Vayalar Award in 1994 for the novel Guru.

[1] Surendran was born on 22 February 1921 in Ochira in Kollam district of Kerala state.

He served in the Department of Post & Telegraph; and in 1965 he resigned his job to become a full-time writer.

He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963 for the novel Maya and the Vayalar Award in 1994 for the novel Guru.

K. Surendran hands over the fellowship certificate awarded by Kerala Sahitya Akademi to M. T. Vasudevan Nair