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Thikkodiyan
P. Kunhananandan Nair, better known by his penname Thikodiyan ((マラヤーラム語:തിക്കോടിയന്)) (1916 – 28 January 2001) was a well-known Malayalam author. He was born in Thikkodi, a small village in Kozhikode district, in the Indian state of Kerala. He was a multi-faceted personality, being a poet, playwright, novelist and a producer at All India Radio.
Thikodiyan has written a number of plays, novels, screenplays, and lyrics.〔(News of Thikkodiyan's death )〕 In his autobiography ''Arangu Kaanatha Nadan'' (''The actor who had never been on stage''), Thikodiyan portrayed the Malabar's social and cultural development in the post independent period and captured the charm of Kozhikode. This work won him the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) in 1995〔(Awards & Fellowships-Akademi Awards )〕 and Vayalar Ramavarma Award in the same year.〔(Literary Awards )〕
==Life==
He was born in Thikkodi, a small village in Kozhikode district, in the Indian state of Kerala, to M. Kunjappa Nair and P. Narayani Amma. He inherited his love for theatre from his grandfather, who brought him up after the untimely death of his parents. His primary education was at Basel Mission Middle School, Koyilandy. Later he completed teachers training and joined the same school as a teacher in 1936. He imbibed the spirit of the age of nationalism and social awareness. Private schoolteachers were a neglected lot in British Malabar. Thikkodiyan protested against the inequity and was expelled from the school in 1938 for participating in a strike. He then plunged into full-time social work and became an active worker of the Bharat Seva Sangham. Till his last days, he had striven to promote the Nayanar Balika Sadanam, an orphanage in Kozhikode. He joined All India Radio in 1950 as a script writer, and retired in 1979 as a producer. He had joined the AIR after a brief stint as editor of the Malayalam daily, ''Dinaprabha''.
He got married in 1942, and widowed in 1949. He had only one daughter. He died at his residence in Kozhikode on 28 January 2001. He was 84 and had been ailing for the past few months.
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