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Thikkodiyan
P. Kunhananandan Nair, better known by his penname Thikodiyan (1916 – 28 January 2001) was a well-known Malayalam author. He was born in Thikkodi, a small village in Kozhikode district, in the Indian state of Kerala. He was a multi-faceted personality, being a poet, playwright, novelist and a producer at All India Radio.
Thikodiyan has written a number of plays, novels, screenplays, and lyrics. In his autobiography Arangu Kaanatha Nadan (The actor who had never been on stage), Thikodiyan portrayed the Malabar's social and cultural development in the post independent period and captured the charm of Kozhikode. This work won him the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) in 1995 and Vayalar Ramavarma Award in the same year.