Unnikrishnan Thiruvazhiyode (born 1942) is an Indian civil servant and a Malayalam language novelist from the state of Kerala.
He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for the novel Driksakshi.
[1] Unnikrishnan earned Bachelor of Science in Physics from Government Victoria College, Palakkad and then earned a Bachelor of Education degree from Feroke Training College.
He later joined the Central Secretariat Service in 1966 and retired in year 2002 as Deputy Secretary to Government of India from Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
He was born in Thiruvazhiyode village in Palakkad district of Kerala, in 1942.