Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup

Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup (1902–1980) was a poet from Kerala, India. He was born on May 10, 1902 in Vennikkulam Pathanamthitta, Kerala to Cherukattumadathil Padmanabha Kurup and Laksmikunjamma. He started writing poetry from the age of 15 and after passing Vidwan examinations. Gopalakurup worked as teacher for 2 years at St . Behanans High School Vennikulam and 25 years at M.G.M H.S, Thiruvalla. He later worked in Malayalam Lexicon and State Manuscripts Library. He was awarded the titles '5 Sahithya nipunan' by the Maharaja of Kochi and 'Sahithyakalanidhi' by Kerala Hindiprachara Sabha. In 1967 he received the Odakkuzhal award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and Thirukkural Award for his collection Manikyaveena.

In 1974 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award was given for the work Kamasurabhi. He has represented Kerala in the national poets' meetings held at Delhi,Calcutta and Bangalore.

He is married to Mepral Mangattu Madhavi Amma.^[1][2] He died on August 29, 1980 and laid to rest on the shore of River Manimala at Vennikulam, Pathanamthitta District.

Works

Sarovaram

Manasaputhri

Vellithalam

Vasantholsavam

Amruthabhishekam

Manikyaveena

Keralasree

Soundaryapooja

Kadaleevanam

Kamsurabhi

Ponnampalamedu

ThulaseedasaRamayanam

Aarame Gandhi

Thirukkural

Sidharthacharitham

References

Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam language
1955-1975	R. Narayana Panikkar (1955) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1957) K. P. Kesava Menon (1958) Uroob (1960) G. Sankara Kurup (1963) P. Kesavadev (1964) Balamani Amma (1965) Kuttikrishna Marar (1966) P. Kunhiraman Nair (1967) Edasseri Govindan Nair (1969) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1970) Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1971) S. K. Pottekkatt (1972) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (1973) Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup (1974) O. N. V. Kurup (1975)
1976-2000	Cherukad (1976) Lalithambika Antharjanam (1977) Sugathakumari (1978) N. V. Krishna Warrier (1979) Punathil Kunjabdulla (1980) Vilasini (1981) V. K. N. (1982) S. Guptan Nair (1983) Ayyappa Paniker (1984) Sukumar Azhikode (1985) M. Leelavathy (1986) N. Krishna Pillai (1987) C. Radhakrishnan (1988) Olappamanna (1989) O. V. Vijayan (1990) M. P. Sankunni Nair (1991) M. Mukundan (1992) N. P. Mohammed (1993) Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (1994) Thikkodiyan (1995) T. Padmanabhan (1996) Anand (1997) Kovilan (1998) C. V. Sreeraman (1999) R. Ramachandran (2000)
2001-present	Attoor Ravi Varma (2001) K. G. Sankara Pillai (2002) Sara Joseph (2003) Zacharia (2004) Kakkanadan (2005) M. Sukumaran (2006) Sethu (2007) K. P. Appan (2008) U. A. Khader (2009) M. P. Veerendra Kumar (2010) M. K. Sanu (2011) K. Satchidanandan (2012) M. N. Paloor (2013) Subhash Chandran (2014) K. R. Meera (2015)