N. P. Chellappan Nair

N. P. Chellappan Nair (1903 - 1972) was a playwright and short story writer from Kerala, India. He concentrated on social comedy of manners. Of his 200 stories, thirty-one have been published in a separate volume.[1] He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1961 for the play Iblisukalude Naattil.[2]

N. P. Chaellappan Nair was born in 1903 in Mannar, a small town in what is now Alappuzha district of Indian state of Kerala. He died in 1972 at the age of 69.[3]

  1. ^ Mohan Lal (ed.). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: sasay to zorgot. p. 4056.
  2. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Play)". Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  3. ^ Chelangad, Saju (8 February 2015). "Actor, scenarist, administrator". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 February 2022.