Punathil Kunjabdulla

Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940 – 27 October 2017) was a well-known Indian Malayalam language novelist and poet from Kerala state, South India. He was a medical doctor by profession. Kunjabdulla was a modernist in Malayalam literature. His novel "Smarakasilakal" ("Memorial Stones") won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award (Malayalam) in 1980.
Kunjabdulla died at the age of 75 on 27 October 2017 of bladder cancer.