S. Guptan Nair was born in a affluent Nair family at Oachira, a temple town famous for Oachira Parabrahma Temple of Kollam district of the south Indian state of Kerala on August 22, 1919 to Sankara Pillai, a known ayurvedic scholar and physician and his wife, Kali Amma.
[1] Nair died in a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on February 6, 2006, succumbing to respiratory illnesses, at the age of 86.
[7] Books such as Krantha Darsikal, Navamalika and Gadyam Pinnitta Vazhikal are counted among his major works.
[9] He was also instrumental in publishing a number of letters written by his friend and poet, G. Sankara Kurup[10] as well as the writings of Kutti Kunju Thankachi, the 19th century writer and the daughter of Irayimman Thampi,[11] which was edited and published by Guptan Nair under the title, Kuttikunju Thankachiyude Kruthikal in 1979.
[16] Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with the distinguished fellowship in 1996[17] and two years later, he received the Vayalar Award.