Hridayakumari
Sign in to saveHridayakumari (1930 – 8 November 2014) was an Indian writer, educator, scholar, translator, and orator. She wrote primarily in the Malayalam language, and in 1991, was awarded the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for her book, Kalpanikatha.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Aranmula
- Place of death
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Malayalam
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- date of death
- 2014-11-08
- date of birth
- 1930-09-01
- name in native language
- ഹൃദയകുമാരി
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Hridayakumari (1930 – 8 November 2014) was an Indian writer, educator, scholar, translator, and orator. She wrote primarily in the Malayalam language, and in 1991, was awarded the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for her book, Kalpanikatha.
== Career == Hridayakumari taught English at several colleges in the state of Kerala during a forty-year career, eventually retiring as the principal of Government College for Women in Thiruvananthapuram in 1986. She had also taught previously at the University College, Thiruvananthapuram; at Maharajas College, Ernakulam;at Brennen College, Thalassery and Victoria College, Palakkad. She won several awards, including the S Guptan Nair award, the Captain Lakshmi Award, and the Shankaranarayanan Thampi award.
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