Veerankutty Mehfil is a Malayali

Malayali

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 poet

Poet

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 and lecturer

Lecturer

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. He was born in Vadakara in Kozhikode district

Kozhikode district

Kozhikode District , formerly Calicut, is a district of Kerala state, situated on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 38.25% urbanised...

, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

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. Veerankutty was a lecturer at MEASS College - Areacode. He is head of Malayalam Department Malayalam at the Government College, Maddappally, in the Kozhikode district of Kerala.

Awards and fellowships

Veerankutty was awarded the K. S. K Thalikkulam award for his poetry collection 'Jalabhoopadam' in 2001

List of Poems

1. Jalabhoopadam (Mapping the Waters), Papillon, Kozhikode, 1999.
2. Manthrikan (Wizard), DC Books, Kottayam, 2004.
3. Autograph, DC Books, Kottayam, 2007.

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