Methil Radhakrishnan receives Kerala’s highest literary honour

The Kerala government has awarded Methil Radhakrishnan the 2026 Ezhuthachan Award, the Indian state’s highest literary honour. The 1 November announcement says that the jury, chaired by poet K. G. Sankara Pillai, selected the writer unanimously. The award includes 500,000 rupees, a plaque and a citation, and will be presented later in Kozhikode. A novelist, short-story writer, poet and science essayist, Radhakrishnan was described by the jury as a voice who has renewed the sensibility of Malayalam literature. The honour particularly recognises the breadth of his practice: science, philosophy, psychology, music and history enter into dialogue with literary invention in his work, rather than remaining separate fields of knowledge.