What is Punathil Kunjabdulla?
[[File:Punathil Kunjabdulla.jpg|right|200px]] '''Punathil Kunjabdulla''' (1940 – 27 October 2017) was a well-known Indian [[Malayalam]] language novelist and poet from [[Kerala state]], [[South India]]. He was a medical doctor by profession. Kunjabdulla was a modernist in [[Malayalam literature]].<ref name=Rajan>{{cite book |last=Rajan |first=P. K.|title=The Growth of the Novel in India, 1950–1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EK3PpQWV51MC&pg=PA68&dq=Punathil+Kunjabdulla|year=1989|publisher= Abhinav Publications |isbn= 81-7017-259-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Natarajan |first1=Nalini | title=The Handbook of twentieth-century literatures of India | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfSPI2irzUgC&pg=PA196&dq=Punathil+Kunjabdulla |year= 1996|publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn= 0-313-28778-3 }}</ref> His novel ''[[Smarakasilakal]]'' (''Memorial Stones'') won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award|Kendra Sahithya Academy Award]] (Malayalam) in 1980.<ref name=academi>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10311.htm#malayalam |title=Awards & Fellowships-Akademi Awards |access-date=2017-10-27 |archive-date=2009-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828042835/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10311.htm#malayalam |url-status=dead }}</ref> Kunjabdulla died at the age of 75 on 27 October 2017 of [[bladder cancer]].<ref>[http://english.mathrubhumi.com/mobile/news/kerala/writer-punathil-kunjabdulla-passes-away-1.2341649 Writer Punathil Kunjabdulla passes away]{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kunjabdulla, Pinathil}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Indian poets]] [[Category:Indian physicians]] [[Category:Indian novelists]] [[Category:Malayali people]] {{bio-stub}}