Veloor Krishnankutty was born on September 19, 1927[1] in Velur in the present day Kottayam district, then in Travancore to N. N. Kunjunni and Parvathi Amma.

[3] He was also a member of the senate of the University of Cochin and the advisory boards of the All India Radio and the Institute of Children's Literature.

[4] Noted filmmaker, K. G. George based his 1984 satire Panchavadi Palam on a book of Krishnankutty of the same name[5] and two years later, he wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues for Ambili Ammavan.

[6] His book, Vela Manasilirikkatte, fetched Krishnankutty the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Miscellaneous Works in 1974.

[2] He died on August 22, 2003, at a private hospital in Kottayam where he had been admitted following renal complaints, survived his wife, two daughters and a son.