N. Kuttikrishna Pillai, better known as N. K. Desam (Malayalam: എൻ. കെ. ദേശം; 31 October 1936 – 4 February 2024), was a Malayalam-language poet and literary critic from the south Indian state of Kerala. In 2009, his poetry collection Mudra won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2017, his Malayalam transliteration of Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore was selected for the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize.
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31 October 1936 Desam, Alwaye, Kingdom of Cochin, British India
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Died |
4 February 2024 (aged 87)
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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